September 13, 2024
(BBC) – The first “citizens’ jury” on assisted dying in England has backed a change in the law to allow people who are terminally ill to end their life. A jury of 28 people concluded it should be an option … Read More
September 11, 2024
(CBS News) – The latest strategy builds on previous ones and includes a federal action plan calling for implementation of 200 measures over the next three years, including prioritizing populations disproportionately affected by suicide, such as Black youth and Native … Read More
September 3, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Assisted suicide was sold as compassionate. In practice it has turned out to be monstrous. The new law dropped safeguards, such as the minimum 10-day assessment period between request and provision. It also proposed mental illness … Read More
August 23, 2024
(Undark) – Debate over Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying law shows the need to rethink the biological model of mental illness. I was horrified by the news of the law’s latest expansion — a reaction that surprised me. Having grown … Read More
August 23, 2024
(BBC) – More than 700 people in the UK have posted on a pro-suicide website looking for someone to die with, a BBC investigation has found. The site, which we are not naming, has a members-only section where users can … Read More
August 20, 2024
(CBS News) – At least 26 people have traveled to Vermont to die, representing nearly 25% of the reported assisted deaths in the state from May 2023 through this June, according to the Vermont Department of Health. In Oregon, 23 … Read More
August 16, 2024
Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (vol. 21, no. 2, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 9, 2024
(Gallup) – Smaller majority support doctor-assisted suicide, slim majority say it is moral Americans’ current views on the legality of euthanasia, a procedure in which a physician intentionally acts to end the life of a patient, are similar to what … Read More
July 24, 2024
(CBC News) – Nearly 45,000 Canadians died through MAID between 2016, the year it became legal in Canada, and 2022. It has been widely discussed and debated, and continues to be controversial, especially as eligibility has expanded. But an often … Read More
July 8, 2024
(National Post) – In addition to her MAID work, Wiebe runs a contraception and medical abortion clinic in Vancouver. She is one of the most prominent and prolific providers of assisted dying in Canada, the “pro-choice doctor providing peaceful deaths,” … Read More
July 3, 2024
(BBC) – A mother has admitted giving her terminally ill seven-year-old son a large dose of morphine to stop his suffering and “quietly end his life”. Antonya Cooper, from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, said her son Hamish had stage 4 cancer and … Read More
June 6, 2024
Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 50, no. 6, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Beneficence cannot Justify voluntary Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide” by Petros Panayiotou “Mourning the Frozen: Considering the relational Implications of Cryonics” by Robin Hillenbrink and Christopher … Read More
May 27, 2024
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May 7, 2024
(BBC) – In Canada, people with a disability can have an assisted death, provided they feel they are suffering intolerably and their condition cannot be reversed. Carr has been a vocal opponent of assisted dying for more than a decade. … Read More
May 1, 2024
April 23, 2024
(Politico) – The author of a California bill that aimed to create the most expansive assisted dying law in the country has pulled the proposal, meaning it won’t be considered this year. San Diego area Sen. Catherine Blakespear confirmed after … Read More
April 17, 2024
April 12, 2024
(ABC News) – “Medical-aid in dying is not me choosing to die,” she says she told her 17-year-old grandson. “I am going to die. But it is my way of having a little bit more control over what it looks … Read More
April 1, 2024
(Chicago Sun Times) – The coalition says it advocates for “medical aid in dying and not assisted suicide, as it is commonly known.” This is simply a language game. “Medical aid” sounds a lot more attractive than “suicide,” but the … Read More
April 1, 2024
(The Free Press) – Some right-to-die activists want everyone to have access to euthanasia—even young people with mental illness. Are they also making suicide contagious? Theo Boer, a healthcare ethics professor at Protestant Theological University in Groningen, served for a … Read More
April 1, 2024
March 28, 2024
(KTVS) – Oregon Health Authority has released its 26th annual report on the Oregon Death with Dignity Act, which shows an almost 30% increase in the number of prescriptions written for lethal doses of medication under the Act in 2023, partly … Read More
March 28, 2024
(Boston Globe) – The New Hampshire House narrowly passed a bill that would legalize medical aid in dying in a vote of 179 to 176 Thursday. The controversial proposal outlined in House Bill 1283 also is often called physician-assisted suicide, … Read More
