August 4, 2026
(CT) – Caregiver burnout is a real problem, as anyone who has cared for a vulnerable loved one will tell you. Many are exhausted and frustrated when those they love cannot take care of themselves. In these situations, both those … Read More
August 3, 2026
(Desert News via MSN) – A federal judge issued a consent order temporarily blocking New York officials from enforcing provisions of the state’s new medically assisted-suicide law against a group of religious healthcare providers. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed … Read More
July 27, 2026
(Futurism) – “It is unconscionable that ‘ChatGPT-assisted suicide’ is becoming a recurring cause of death.” Last week, a new lawsuit accused ChatGPT of encouraging the suicide of a young mother. The 29-year-old Christian Faith Madison died after walking into traffic, … Read More
July 16, 2026
(AP) – France’s National Assembly gave final approval Wednesday to a bill allowing adults with incurable illnesses to receive lethal medication, the culmination of years of debate over end-of-life care. But the 291-241 vote in the lower house of parliament … Read More
July 13, 2026
(NPR) – Should surgeons be allowed to perform euthanasia by removing patients’ hearts and other organs while they’re still alive? The idea, dubbed “Death by Organ Donation,” would enable euthanasia patients to donate organs for transplantation in a way that … Read More
July 10, 2026
(BBC) – A law to allow terminally ill adults the right to choose to end their own lives in Jersey has been granted Royal Assent, meaning the island’s government can bring it into force. The government said this was a … Read More
July 3, 2026
(Illinois Public Media) – Illinois aid-in-dying law is set to take effect in September. It’s meant to give terminally ill patients a medical way to end their lives. But opponents call it “assisted suicide,” and they’ve joined with disability advocates … Read More
June 26, 2026
(Daily Mail) – For the first time since a change in the law in the Netherlands, a child under the age of 12 has died by euthanasia. The death of the child was confirmed by the country’s health minister, Sophie … Read More
June 15, 2026
(Chicago Tribune) – A federal lawsuit filed Thursday challenges a new Illinois law set to go into effect in September that would allow doctors to prescribe medication to terminally ill people to end their own lives. Two disabled patients, a … Read More
June 1, 2026
(NYT) – Yet legalizing medical aid in dying, or MAID, has been and remains a long, contentious process. Catholic leadership and many disability organizations staunchly oppose it. (Pope Leo XIV personally asked Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker not to sign the … Read More
May 29, 2026
(The Free Press) – ‘I don’t want my little girl to die,’ Cissy Dekker said about her 19-year-old daughter, Iris. ‘But out of love, I also don’t want this life for her.’ The symptoms began early in Iris’s adolescence. In … Read More
May 27, 2026
(National Post) – In a second case, the same doctor failed to administer one of three drugs used in assisted deaths and the patient resumed spontaneously breathing after being pronounced dead As first reported Monday by the The Globe and … Read More
April 30, 2026
(The Hill) – Last March, 31-year-old Eileen Mihich was found dead in a room at the Hotel Deluxe in Portland, Ore. Near her body was an empty bottle of the poison pills prescribed specifically for physician-assisted suicide. Mihich had obtained … Read More
April 13, 2026
(WSJ) – We all took an oath to do no harm. That includes killing our patients. Throughout medical school and residency, I always believed that people mattered. But it wasn’t until my conversion to Christianity that I understood why. Scripture … Read More
April 10, 2026
(WSJ) – Noelia Castillo Ramos was in despair. By helping her kill herself, the Spanish state destroyed her autonomy. Advocates of assisted suicide present Castillo’s death as an exercise of individual liberty. They argue that choosing the timing of one’s … Read More
April 9, 2026
(Psychiatric Times) – As Canada approaches the planned implementation of their medical euthanasia program for patients with sole psychiatric illnesses, these authors make an argument as to why euthanasia should remain closed to patients with psychiatric disorders. Unlike many other … Read More
March 27, 2026
(AP) – Noelia Castillo, a Spanish woman who sought euthanasia and fought a protracted legal battle with her family over her right to do so, received life-ending medicine on Thursday in Barcelona. She was 25. (Read More)
March 27, 2026
(Comment) – Reflections from a Canadian public policy researcher. Tracy’s story has reverberated through the years. Amid news in 2018 that Robert Latimer was applying for a pardon or a new trial, my friend Taylor Hyatt, who lives with cerebral … Read More
March 20, 2026
(Compact Magazine) – When people see a wheelchair user like me, they evidently assume my disability must be so hard to survive, so painful, and so isolating that even just venturing beyond my front door is an achievement worthy of … Read More
March 20, 2026
(The Guardian) – The Scottish parliament has voted against legalising assisted dying after critics and religious groups led a concerted campaign to block the measures. MSPs voted 69 to 57 to reject the proposals in a late night vote on … Read More
March 20, 2026
(BBC via MSN) – Alberta has proposed a bill that would limit the use of medically assisted dying – also known as voluntary euthanasia – in the Canadian province solely to end-of-life circumstances. In 2021, Canada expanded access to medically … Read More
March 17, 2026
(The Atlantic) – A Dutch psychiatrist gave lethal injections to patients with mental suffering, some of them teenagers. Does that make him a hero—or something else? Oosterhoff’s patient had no physical illness, fatal or otherwise; he concluded, rather, that she … Read More
March 13, 2026
(Plough) – As laws permitting medically assisted death advance, how will we learn to accept diminishment rather than kill ourselves? I share this experience with Jens because I have been mulling over a parenting challenge, and I think the way … Read More
March 11, 2026
(Daily Mail) – Canada performed thousands of same-day assisted suicides, as it was revealed one elderly woman was killed despite withdrawing her request the day before. The medical assistance in dying (MAiD) program was approved in 2016 and has since been … Read More
March 3, 2026
(BBC) – Parents using Instagram’s child supervision tools will soon receive alerts if their teen repeatedly searches for suicide or self-harm related terms on the platform. It is the first time parent company Meta will proactively alert parents to searches … Read More
