Quebec becomes world leader in euthanasia
Quebec has shot straight to the top of the league table for euthanasia. According to projections published in the Daily Mail, more than 7% of...
UK surgeons go ‘neutral’ on assisted dying
In a significant public relations victory for the assisted dying lobby in the United Kingdom, the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS England) has...
Jury to decide fate of UK nurse accused of baby murders
More than eight months of evidence in the trial of Lucy Letby, an English nurse accused of murdering five new-born babies and attempting to murder...
Hawaii relaxes controls on assisted suicide
Hawaii has relaxed its safeguards on assisted suicide, which was legalized only five years ago, in 2018. The state’s governor, Josh Green, a retired oncologist,...
Are Dutch doctors too willing to euthanise people with autism and intellectual disability?
Will legalized euthanasia and assisted suicide lead to unnecessary deaths because of an able-ist bias against intellectual disability and autism? The records of Dutch euthanasia...
Euthanasia in Quebec: seamless service at a friendly funeral parlour
In Quebec, the number of cases of euthanasia has risen from 63 in 2015-2016 to 3663 in 2021-2022. Nowadays many patients find it difficult to...
Against commercial-assisted suicide
The journal Bioethics recently published an attack on commercial assisted suicide (CAS). The author, Yoann Della Croce, condemns it as “morally indefensible and practically inefficient”....
Denmark: parliament pressured to OK euthanasia
A proposal to legalise euthanasia in Denmark has broken the threshold of 50,000 signatures to put it before the Danish Parliament for the first time....
What is that bright light at the end of the tunnel?
Reports of near-death experiences -- with tales of white light, visits from departed loved ones, hearing voices, seeing Heaven -- capture our imagination. The fact...
Why is California lagging behind Canada in assisted dying?
In 2016 both Canada and California legalized assisted dying. But from then to 2021, 31,664 Canadians – 3.3% of all deaths -- died under Bill...
Canadian prisoners are choosing euthanasia but the public is none the wiser
Canada is the only country which regards euthanasia for people incarcerated in prisons as a human right. Nine prisoners have received euthanasia in the seven...
Portugal on the brink of legalizing euthanasia
For the fifth time, Portugal's parliament has approved a bill legalising euthanasia. It passed with a comfortable majority -- 129 votes to 81. The provisions...