India’s Jains outraged at ban on ritual suicide
A court has declared a sacred practice unconstitutional. While Western countries wrangle about rational suicide, India is debating spiritual suicide. The High Court of the...
Progressive US bioethicist warns of euthanasia slippery slope
Data from Belgium and the Netherlands are alarming, says Art Caplan “Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the ‘slippery slope’:...
Mixed signals from Netherlands and Belgium about euthanasia
One in 20 deaths in Flanders is from euthanasia There is good news and bad news about euthanasia from the Netherlands and Belgium in JAMA...
Peter Singer debates Sydney Archbishop
Civil but sharp-edged. If you can bear the bizarre squealing sounds at some moments in this video, it makes interesting viewing. It is a public...
Why Dutch doctors are reporting fewer euthanised infants
The notorious Groningen Protocol is rarely being used. Doctors in the Netherlands are permitted to give infants under 1 year a lethal injection if it...
Former Anglican head backs assisted suicide
A “profoundly Christian and moral thing”, according to Lord Carey. The former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey, has appeared in a video made by the...
Nitschke’s comedy act a damp squib
DAVID BARTHOLOMEW / The Telegraph Judging from early reviews of Australian euthanasia activist Dr Philip Nitschke’s sally into stand-up comedy, he should stick...
Court tussle over right to euthanase Dutch woman with dementia
The first time that an institution has refused to allow a patient to be given a lethal injection. Sorry, we missed this euthanasia story from...
At last, someone with a plan for the silver tsunami
Outspoken media personality Katie Hopkins wants euthanasia vans for Britons. A TV show called “If Katie Hopkins Ruled the World” debuts next week in Britain....
‘Foreigners do not understand us’
The boundaries of euthanasia in Belgium and the Netherlands keep expanding, says a world expert. Raphael Cohen-Almagor, of the University of Hull in the United...
Dutch paediatricians back euthanasia for under-12s
Association not worried about safeguards. Dutch paediatricians are backing euthanasia for children aged from 1 to 12. In a position paper released on June 19,...
The Economist to campaign on Belgian model of euthanasia
A new editor takes a familiar line. Editor-in-chief of The Economist, Zanny Minton-Beddoes The world’s most influential news magazine, The Economist, has a...