Is the philosophy behind Canada’s experiment with euthanasia weakening in its appeal?
The growing toll of euthanasia in Canada – from zero to more than 10,000 in five years – is upsetting settled ideological allegiances. How could...
Transgender Canadian denied euthanasia
Lois Cardinal, a 35-year-old First Nations transwoman from Alberta, Canada, has been denied medical assistance in dying (MAiD) after applying for the procedure due to...
Mercy killing trial in Cyprus adds pressure to right-to-die lobby
A 76-year-old British man who smothered his terminally ill wife to stop her suffering has been released from jail in Cyprus. David Hunter pleaded guilty...
Euthanasia in Canada. MAiD in hell?
The United Kingdom and other countries are looking to Canada for guidelines about how to legislate for euthanasia. According to a group called UK Humanists,...
Quebec becomes world leader in euthanasia
Quebec has shot straight to the top of the league table for euthanasia. According to projections published in the Daily Mail, more than 7% of...
Are Dutch doctors too willing to euthanise people with autism and intellectual disability?
Will legalized euthanasia and assisted suicide lead to unnecessary deaths because of an able-ist bias against intellectual disability and autism? The records of Dutch euthanasia...
Euthanasia in Quebec: seamless service at a friendly funeral parlour
In Quebec, the number of cases of euthanasia has risen from 63 in 2015-2016 to 3663 in 2021-2022. Nowadays many patients find it difficult to...
Against commercial-assisted suicide
The journal Bioethics recently published an attack on commercial assisted suicide (CAS). The author, Yoann Della Croce, condemns it as “morally indefensible and practically inefficient”....
Denmark: parliament pressured to OK euthanasia
A proposal to legalise euthanasia in Denmark has broken the threshold of 50,000 signatures to put it before the Danish Parliament for the first time....
Why is California lagging behind Canada in assisted dying?
In 2016 both Canada and California legalized assisted dying. But from then to 2021, 31,664 Canadians – 3.3% of all deaths -- died under Bill...
Canadian prisoners are choosing euthanasia but the public is none the wiser
Canada is the only country which regards euthanasia for people incarcerated in prisons as a human right. Nine prisoners have received euthanasia in the seven...
One in four Canadians are cool with allowing euthanasia for poor people
As Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying regime expands, it is meeting more resistance. One of the most powerful criticisms, one which has surfaced often in...