‘Not nice Lucy’: the fun-loving nurse who is modern Britain’s worst baby killer
English neonatal nurse Lucy Letby has been found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six others. The attacks took place between June...
Nitschke gets US tax-deductible status for his suicide machines
Americans can now get a tax-deduction for promoting assisted suicide. The world’s best-known assisted suicide activist, Australia’s Philip Nitschke, has drawn the curtains on a...
Will Canadian doctors be forced to market euthanasia to their patients?
Canada is constantly working to increase the number of euthanasia deaths. The latest development is proposed guidelines which practically require doctors and nurse practitioners to...
Australia’s capital is on track to legalise euthanasia. But activists are already unhappy.
The government of the Australian Capital Territory plans to introduce legislation permitting voluntary assisted dying (VAD) later this year. The Minister for Human Rights, Tara...
Quebec euthanasia deaths the highest in the world
Euthanasia in Quebec has reached 7% of deaths, the highest in the world. Nonetheless, the head of the province’s Commission on End-of-Life Care, Dr Michel...
Japanese doctor with stage-4 cancer: “I want my patients to live with dignity until the end”
Fumio Yamazaki, a 75-year-old palliative care doctor, has been battling stage-4 cancer for four years. But despite his own illness, he has continued helping his...
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...
Canadian man supplied 1200 suicide kits online
Canada, the country with the most victims of euthanasia, is also the home of a man who may have enabled hundreds of people around the...
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...
Dutch court sentences man to 3½ years for assisting suicides
A Dutch court has sentenced a man to 3½ years in prison for providing contacts with a lethal suicide drug. The man, identified only as...
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,...