Gold medallist paralympian from Belgium seeks euthanasia
Marieke Vervoort has become an ambassador for the right-to-die movement The end-of-life wishes of a gold medallist at the Paralympics have again raised the question...
Will Belgium grant euthanasia for unwanted sexual attraction?
A 39-year-old man has requested euthanasia because he fears that he may be a paedophile Along with unbearable physical pain, mental suffering, and dementia, a...
Bioethics and natural law: an interview with John Keown
An exclusive interview with John Keown, a senior research scholar at Georgetown University's Kennedy Institute of Ethics. Bioethics discourse is often divided into two broad...
Another euthanasia scandal in Belgium
Is autism grounds for a lethal injection?Tine Nys (centre) with her sisters Another euthanasia scandal in Belgium. Two sisters have complained on a television...
Euthanasia continues to rise in Belgium
The number of euthanasia cases in Belgium exceeded two thousand in 2015. The number of euthanasia cases annually in Belgium has exceeded two thousand for...
Call for Belgium to revise euthanasia legislation
Doctors and ethicists protest "death as therapy". Although legalised euthanasia is widely accepted amongst Belgian doctors and politicians and a pet cause of the media,...
Nitschke tells medical board to go to blazes
Burns practicing certificate and announces plans for a right-to-die campaign It took only a month for Australia’s leading right-to-die activist to tire of life without...
Australia’s ‘Dr Death’ forced to stop promoting suicide
Severe conditions placed on Philip Nitschke's registration The world’s foremost promoter of assisted suicide and euthanasia, Australia’s Dr Philip Nitschke, has agreed to cease his...
Not enough doctors to staff Belgium’s euthanasia commission
Belgium’s Federal Evaluation and Control Commission for Euthanasia has lost its mandate after failing to find replacements for vacancies on its executive committee. Belgium’s Federal...
Supervision of euthanasia breaking down in Belgium
The theme of control is at the heart of debates about assisted suicide and euthanasia. For the patients, it’s control of their own lives. For...
Euthanasia for unbearable mental suffering in Belgium
Euthanasia in Belgium is an increasingly popular subject for documentaries. The latest comes from Dateline, a program of Australia’s SBS network. (See the video below)....
Children contest will of Nitschke follower
Disinherited in favour of euthanasia activistThe late William Kent (Bill) O’Brien A healthy 89-year-old Australian man has committed suicide under the inspiration of Philip...