Belgium rebuked over euthanasia management by European Court of Human Rights
After ten years in the courts, a Belgian man grieving over his deceased mother has lost a battle against his country’s euthanasia regime. Godelieva de...
Quebec doctors back euthanasia for newborns
Euthanasia in Canada is racing ahead. A law authorising doctors and nurses to give patients lethal injections was passed in 2016. A law to extend...
English nurse charged with serial killing of newborns
A 32-year-old nurse is on trial for murdering five new-born babies and attempting to murder 10 others at a hospital in the west of England....
Canadian euthanasia: bill to protect doctors’ conscience rights fails
It wasn’t a terribly controversial and it was a private member’s bill, and it failed to make headlines in Canada or elsewhere. But it seems...
Survivor of 2016 Brussels airport ISIS bomb is ‘euthanised’ for PTSD
On March 22, 2016, ISIS terrorists set off three bombs in at Brussels airport and at Maalbeek metro station. Thirty-five people died -- 32 civilians...
Dutch health minister wants to clear backlog of requests for euthanasia for mental health reasons
In a report to the Dutch Parliament in late September, the Dutch Minister for Health, Ernst Kuipers, discussed problems with a backlog of euthanasia requests...
Victoria’s euthanasia deaths increase 31%
The number of Victorians using voluntary assisted dying has increased by 31% in a single year, despite the Covid-19 pandemic. In the year to June...
Queen Elizabeth II’s forgotten link to the euthanasia debate
The death of Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday has dominated headlines for the last few days. BioEdge's editor was searching for a bioethical angle and...
Scotland and Uruguay: will they legalise euthanasia?
Two more countries are debating whether to legalise euthanasia: Scotland and Uruguay. In Scotland a Liberal Democrat member of the Scottish Parliament, Liam McArthur, has...
What does the future hold for the disabled when euthanasia is legal?
As the cartoon above suggests, disability activists fear that euthanasia could become a cheaper option for medical care. In a position paper published by the...
Spanish gunman euthanised before going to trial
Marin Eugen Sabau, the Romanian security guard who went beserk in December and shot fellow employees and wounded two police officer, has been euthanised in...
Disability rights activists slam Canada’s euthanasia regime
Disability rights advocates have slammed Canada’s euthanasia law in a blistering article by AP journalist Maria Cheng. Tim Stainton, of the University of British Columbia,...