Quadriplegic Quebec man chooses assisted dying rather than live with bedsores
A quadriplegic Quebec man has chosen assisted dying because of a bedsore he acquired when a hospital failed to give him a special pressure mattress. ...
Belgian health care boss says euthanasia is the solution to an ageing population
The president of Belgium's biggest health care fund, Christian Mutualities (CM), has called for a radical solution to the problem of an ageing population. Luc...
Belgian softens penalties for illegal euthanasia deaths
Belgian doctors can be prosecuted if they administer euthanasia without regard to the specified conditions. But however serious the infraction may be, they can only...
After inserting abortion in France’s constitution, Macron tackles euthanasia
French president Emmanuel Macron has announced that he will back legislation to legalise "aid in dying" for terminally-ill adults. A report last year claimed that most French...
The long march begins: assisted dying in Ireland
Ireland probably has the most explicitly Christian constitution in the world. Its preamble begins: “In the Name of the Most Holy Trinity, from Whom is all authority...
California could liberalise conditions for assisted suicide
California’s End of Life Option Act, which regulates assisted suicide, passed in 2015 and became operative on June 9, 2016. Like legislation in other states, California’s...
Canadian father fights to stop autistic daughter from accessing MAID
A Calgary man has won a temporary stay of the euthanasia of his 27-year-old daughter who is suffering from autism. According to a report in CBC...
Euthanasia cases increased by 15% in Belgium in 2023
More than 3,400 Belgians were euthanised in 2023 – a 15% increase over 2022. Statistics released by the Federal Control and Evaluation Commission for Euthanasia reveal that...
Former Dutch PM and his wife die together in ‘duo euthanasia’
They may have been the most publicised deaths in the history of euthanasia in the Netherlands. A former prime minister of the country and his...
Ecuador’s high court legalizes euthanasia
Ecuador has become the third country in Latin America to permit euthanasia and assisted suicide. Last week its Constitutional Court decreed by a vote of 7...
‘Terminalism’: discrimination against the dying is wrong
Unjust discrimination is a focal point of bioethics discourse. Bioethicists battle sexism, racism, classism, speciesism, ableism, and ageism. Do they really need another ism? Yes,...
Canada delays euthanasia for people with mental illness
For a second year in a row, Canada’s federal government is going to delay opening euthanasia to people whose only condition is a mental illness....