Clinton fumbles on end-of-life choices
No one had ever asked her about it before. Clinton's response is at 2.00 minutes After California, the biggest state in the US, legalized assisted...
Another euthanasia scandal in Belgium
Is autism grounds for a lethal injection?Tine Nys (centre) with her sisters Another euthanasia scandal in Belgium. Two sisters have complained on a television...
Euthanasia continues to rise in Belgium
The number of euthanasia cases in Belgium exceeded two thousand in 2015. The number of euthanasia cases annually in Belgium has exceeded two thousand for...
New French law creates right to terminal sedation
Critics suspect that it is a disguised form of euthanasia The French National Assembly has approved a law which creates a right to terminal sedation...
JAMA debates assisted suicide
Legalisation in California has put it on the agenda everywhere. The latest issue of JAMA showcases the views of leading American doctors and lawyers on...
First euthanasia case in Quebec
But not without legal complications At least one person and perhaps three have been euthanased in Quebec since the Canadian province’s legislation went into effect...
Another controversy over futile care in Texas
A hospital committee authorises discontinuation of life-sustaining treatment. Chris Dunn in hospital bed before Christmas Medical ethicists have clashed over the death of Chris...
Demented patients can be euthanized in Netherlands
... if there is an advance directive. The Netherlands health ministry has revised its guidelines to allow severely demented patients to be euthanized. However, an...
Hammering out the details in Canada’s new euthanasia regime
Canada could soon have the world's most liberal euthanasia laws Last February Canada’s Supreme Court declared that denying patients access to assisted suicide and euthanasia...
Call for Belgium to revise euthanasia legislation
Doctors and ethicists protest "death as therapy". Although legalised euthanasia is widely accepted amongst Belgian doctors and politicians and a pet cause of the media,...
The underground Dutch system for do-it-yourself euthanasia
Right-to-die groups are promoting a "peaceful pill" The leading Dutch right-to-die society is seeking talks with the Dutch medical association (KNMG) for approval of a...
Nitschke tells medical board to go to blazes
Burns practicing certificate and announces plans for a right-to-die campaign It took only a month for Australia’s leading right-to-die activist to tire of life without...