Italy’s highest court rules that assisted suicide is permissible
Italy's Constitutional Court ruled this week that assisted suicide is legal if a person is experiencing “intolerable physical and psychological suffering". Anyone who "facilitates the...
English juries grapple with ‘mercy killing’
Two recent cases in England show how tricky it isMavis and Ken Eccleston The definition of mercy killing is very elastic, as two recent cases...
A judge loosens Canada’s euthanasia belt another notch or two
Patients no longer need to be terminally ill Something north of 8,000 people have died in Canada after its Medical Aid in Dying legislation came...
Dutch doctor acquitted of unlawful euthanasia
The first in the history of the controversial law to trigger criminal charges In a landmark case, a Dutch doctor who euthanised a severely demented...
Ezekiel Emanuel: intimations of mortality
A leading bioethicist reflects upon his lifespan Sixty-two-year-old Ezekiel Emanuel, chair of the University of Pennsylvania’s department of medical ethics and health policy, as well...
Christian hospital system in US sacks doctor over support for assisted suicide
Conflict set up between freedom of speech and freedom of religion A Christian health system in Denver has set off a firestorm of controversy by...
Australia’s legislative laboratory for euthanasia
After Victoria, Western Australia and Queensland? Perth, capital of Western Australia The Labor-majority Parliament of the Australian state of Victoria passed assisted dying legislation in...
Why the mentally ill deserve access to assisted suicide
An Australian philosopher argues that turning their requests down is discriminatory Not waving but drowning / Ian Espinosa on Unsplash A state of non compos mentis might...
Euthanasia doctor exonerated after death in Orthodox Jewish nursing home
Could have implications for other institutions A Vancouver doctor who snuck into an Orthodox Jewish nursing home which forbids assisted death and euthanised a patient...
Nitschke keeps on pressing those buttons
Now it is live-streamed suicides Philip Nitschke in front of a marquee advertising "A Time to Die", a documentary about his work The ever-controversial Australian...
Victoria issues first assisted suicide permit
Identity of patient kept secret Melbourne / Raj Eiamworakul on Unsplash The Australian state of Victoria has issued its first "voluntary assisted dying" permit under its 2017 euthanasia...
Vincent Lambert died on Thursday at 8.24am
Doctors had removed his nutrition and hydration nine days before Vincent Lambert, the brain-damaged French man who was in a state of impaired consciousness for...