Some patients recall death experiences after heart attacks
In an article in the journal Resuscitation, some survivors of cardiac arrest have described lucid death experiences that occurred while they appeared to be unconscious....
Queensland widower dies after taking assisted suicide drugs ordered by his wife
“Move along, please. Nothing to see here.” This was more or less the reaction of supporters of “voluntary assisted dying” after the first significant report...
Australian first: nurse donates organs after euthanasia
A Victorian woman has become the first Australian to combine death by euthanasia with organ donation. Ballarat nurse Marlene Bevern, 66, had an aggressive form...
Canadian study hints at crushing institutional conscience objections to ‘assisted dying’
Supporters of “voluntary assisted dying” fought hard to achieve legalisation in various jurisdictions around the world. After legalisation, however, battles still remain to be fought....
Euthanasia nurses in Belgium smother patient when lethal drugs fail to work
Alexina Wattiez wasn’t supposed to die like this. The 36-year-old Belgian woman was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2021. She deteriorated rapidly and was in...
Toronto’s MAiDHouse: a pleasant place to pass
An interesting aspect of the normalization of euthanasia in Canada is the MAIDHouse. People who want to access MAiD, Canada’s acronym for medical assistance in...
‘I want to die trying to live’, say British teen
A British teenager who wants to live and a UK hospital who wants her to die are locked in a dramatic dispute over her future....
Assisted suicide laws in US must be less discriminatory, say bioethicists
California, like other American states, permits assisted suicide, but not euthanasia, and not assisted assisted suicide. Patients who want to die must administer the lethal...
Victoria’s euthanasia law: the more the better
The growing number of people dying in the Australian state of Victoria under its Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) legislation gives confidence that the state is...
Why not voluntary lawyer-assisted dying?
At an earlier stage in the debate over assisted dying, a critic wrote that it was incompatible with a physician’s Hippocratic Oath. If the public...
South Australian prisoner will die through ‘voluntary assisted dying’
“Voluntary Assisted Dying” commenced in South Australia on January 31. The latest available figures show that 39 people have already taken advantage of the new...
Care robots seem inevitable. What stops societies from using them?
The inexorable approach of demographic winter raises many questions, but none so important as how the elderly will be cared for. Globally, the number of...