December 5, 2025
(The Michigan Daily) – In the current issue of Medicine at Michigan, Michigan Medicine celebrates 175 alumni and faculty who have made the University of Michigan world-renowned as the “leaders and best.” The editors “looked for clinicians and researchers who … Read More
December 1, 2025
(People via MSN) – The man who founded Dignitas — a non-profit that provides physician-assisted suicide — has died. He was 92. Ludwig Minelli died “self-determinedly by voluntary assisted dying” at one of his own facilities on Saturday, Nov. 29, … Read More
November 25, 2025
(WCBU) – Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood is calling on Gov. JB Pritzker to veto a bill that would allow terminally ill individuals to get a prescription to end their life. Harwood said the pending “medical aid in dying” law … Read More
November 20, 2025
(Chicago Public Media) – Governor Pritzker’s signature would make Illinois the first Midwestern state to legalize prescriptions of life-ending medication for terminally ill patients. Terminally ill residents with a prognosis of six months to live could get physician prescribed drugs … Read More
November 17, 2025
(CBC) – Gratton— who had a variety of health problems, including kidney failure and heart disease— spent a night in the emergency room before being moved to a bed in a hallway on the seventh floor. “There were no lights, … Read More
November 12, 2025
(The Intelligencer) – As a palliative care physician, I strongly urge Gov. JB Pritzker to veto SB 1950, legislation to legalize assisted suicide in Illinois. I am opposed to this legislation for multiple reasons, but especially to protect my patients. … Read More
October 24, 2025
(AP via MSN) – Uruguay’s senate passed a law decriminalizing euthanasia on Wednesday, putting the South American nation among a handful of other countries where seriously ill patients can legally obtain help to end their lives. It makes Uruguay the … Read More
October 23, 2025
(WSJ) – An amended complaint from the parents of Adam Raine, a 16-year-old who died by suicide, alleges the changes were part of a push to increase engagement OpenAI twice loosened ChatGPT’s rules for discussing suicide in the year before … Read More
October 17, 2025
(Hollywood Reporter via MSN) – With In Love, Bloom wrote about how her she slowly lost her husband to Alzheimer’s, how the two made the decision to travel to Switzerland to end his life, and the struggle to move forward … Read More
October 7, 2025
(5280) – More terminally ill Coloradans than ever are turning to Denver Health’s Medical Aid in Dying clinic. We spent the summer witnessing the quiet decisions and final moments of those who chose when—and how—to say goodbye. Denver Health opened … Read More
October 2, 2025
(5280 via Longreads) – More Americans are seeking expanded end-of-life options, and interest in Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) is increasing, with the practice now legal in 11 states. In Colorado, about 1,100 people have used MAID, and recent state … Read More
September 29, 2025
Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 51, no. 9, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
September 5, 2025
(Boston Globe) – When assisted suicide is legalized, safeguards collapse. Thus when New York’s Legislature recently passed a bill authorizing physicians to help patients end their lives, state Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal, the measure’s chief sponsor, praised its “state‑of‑the‑art safeguards” and … Read More
September 3, 2025
The Journal of Medicine & Philosophy (vol. 50, no. 4, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 26, 2025
(NBC News) – The parents of Adam Raine, who died by suicide in April, claim in a new lawsuit against OpenAI that the teenager used ChatGPT as his “suicide coach.” Adam’s parents say that he had been using the artificial … Read More
August 25, 2025
(New York Times) – If cherishing the suffering can make a nation kind, then discarding the suffering makes it cruel. It can breed a sense of contempt — why should we care for this hopeless cause? — and when our … Read More
August 21, 2025
(NPR) – As more states adopt laws allowing terminally ill patients to end their own lives, some groups representing disabled people are suing to stop them. In June, New York became the 11th state to pass legislation allowing terminally ill … Read More
August 19, 2025
(New York Times) – Sophie told Harry she was seeing a therapist, but that she was not being truthful with her. She typed, “I haven’t opened up about my suicidal ideation to anyone and don’t plan on it.” At various … Read More
August 11, 2025
(The Atlantic) – When Canada’s Parliament in 2016 legalized the practice of euthanasia—Medical Assistance in Dying, or MAID, as it’s formally called—it launched an open-ended medical experiment. One day, administering a lethal injection to a patient was against the law; … Read More
August 11, 2025
Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 51, no. 7, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 4, 2025
(New York Times) – Tatiana Andia knew Colombia would permit her a medically assisted death. She took her country with her on the journey to dying. Colombia has allowed physician-assisted death — known there as euthanasia — for a decade. … Read More
July 23, 2025
(PAMAS) – Progressives Against Medical Assisted Suicide presents “Thoughts on Medical Assisted Suicide,” available to watch (below) from July 23-30 in honor of the 35th anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. (Watch Here)
July 22, 2025
(New York Times) – In June, lawmakers in my native country, Britain, approved plans to legalize assisted suicide. If the bill becomes law, England and Wales will join more than a dozen countries and 11 U.S. states in permitting medically … Read More
July 22, 2025
(Desert News) – Behind the veneer of “freedom of choice,” there is an ideology that distinguishes those “worthy of life” from those whose lives allegedly “aren’t worth living.” Whether it is communicated explicitly or only hinted at, the elderly and … Read More
July 18, 2025
(Cloverdeal Reporter) – Tamara Jansen, MP for Cloverdale-Langley City, has brought forth a private member’s bill regarding Medical Assistance in Dying and mental illness. She introduced Bill C-218 in Parliament June 20. The legislation seeks to block the Liberal Government’s … Read More
