Anscombe Bioethics Centre releases position papers on euthanasia
The Anscombe Bioethics Centre in the UK has commissioned several briefing papers on to clarify the issues at stake in debates around the world...
‘Quick and painless death’: easier said than done
‘Quick and painless’ is a great slogan but it’s hard to achieve.
Protracted ‘assisted dying’ in Colorado
Assisted dying was not the kind of farewell that she had imagined for her husband. She felt “numb, in shock, stressed.”
Can ‘assisted dying’ ever be fully autonomous?
Respect for autonomy, even more than fear of pain, is the fundamental reason why the argument for “assisted dying” has been so powerful. But will...
Euthanasia fundamentalists still at work in the Netherlands selling ‘Mittel X’
Dutch police are investigating the deaths of dozens of people who purchased a suicide powder called Mittel X [“Substance X”] from members of a fundamentalist...
Next cab off the ‘assisted dying’ rank: Austria
The Federal Chancery has sent a draft law to the nation’s parliament. It appears that the government has no other option, constitutionally speaking.
Canadian funeral homes break into the MAiD market
Canadian funeral homes have discovered a way to make money out of medical assistance in dying. During the Covid-19 pandemic people needed a clean, quiet, comfortable venue where they would die.
Prominent Australian assisted suicide campaigner dies
The Grand Old Man of assisted suicide in Australia, Dr Rodney Syme, died this week at the age of 86, after suffering a stroke. He...
Debate begins on NSW euthanasia bill
Parliament of New South Wales A euthanasia bill will be tabled soon in the parliament of the Australian state of New South Wales. Alex Greenwich,...
BMJ champions ‘assisted dying’
The editors of the BMJ recently put the prestige of their publication squarely behind “voluntary assisted dying”. In a long editorial with 30 footnotes, “Assisted...
Illegal euthanasia of infants continues in Belgium
It is well-known that eligibility for euthanasia in Belgium is elastic. However, there are limits. The law only permits the euthanasia of minors who are...
Euthanasia leaves Aboriginal Australians even more vulnerable
In 2018 Labor Senator Pat Dodson, a Yawuru man from Broome, Western Australia, gave a speech in Federal Parliament on voluntary assisted dying from an...