Scotland to vote on legalising assisted dying for the third time
Scotland could become the first jurisdiction in the United Kingdom to legalise assisted dying. Scottish Liberal Democrat Liam McArthur tabled an assisted dying for terminally ill...
Assisted suicide numbers in Oregon continue to rise
In 1997, Oregon became the first jurisdiction to legalise physician-assisted suicide for people with a terminally illness. Since then numbers have increased year-on-year and this shows no...
How not to report an assisted suicide
Thursday in Sydney, where BioEdge is located, is a few hours ahead of Thursday in Switzerland, the day when 72-year-old Hal Malchow plans to die...
Ukrainian man sells suicide powders on the internet from a flat in Kyiv
A Ukrainian man from Kyiv has been sending parcels of suicide powder to the United Kingdom since at least 2020 and an estimated 130 people...
Court rules ‘voluntary assisted dying’ is suicide
Such is the stigma surrounding suicide that advocates of “voluntary assisted dying” insist vehemently that it is by no means suicide. For instance, Go Gentle...
South Australian chooses ‘assisted dying’ rather than living in a bureaucratic morass
A 62-year-old South Australian man chose euthanasia because he found navigating the bureaucracy for end-of-life care too complicated and stressful. Jim Mills was a railway...
Accidents do happen in legal assisted suicide
What happens if you attend your buddy’s assisted suicide end-of-life celebration and have an exploratory sip of his lethal prescription? Well, you might die. A...
Significant gaps in information about Oregon’s benchmark assisted dying law
Around the world, lobbyists for legalising physician-assisted suicide (PAS) use Oregon as an example of safe, successful, and carefully drafted legislation. Every year the state...
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...
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...
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...
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...