September 3, 2025
A New Edition of The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy Is Now Available
The Journal of Medicine & Philosophy (vol. 50, no. 4, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
Euthanasia / Suicide
August 26, 2025
The family of teenager who died by suicide alleges OpenAI’s ChatGPT is to blame
(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
What It Really Means to Choose Life
(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
A look at arguments around Colorado’s medical assistance in dying law
(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
What My DaughterTold ChatGPT Before SheTook Her Life
(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
Canada Is Killing Itself
(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
A New Edition of Journal of Medical Ethics Is Now Available
Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 51, no. 7, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 4, 2025
A Cancer Patient Chose Assisted Death. That Wasn’t the Last Hard Choice.
(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
“Thoughts on Medical Assisted Suicide” Film
(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
The Perverse Economics of Assisted Suicide
(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
Perspective: It’s time to hold the line against the culture of death
(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
Cloverdale-Langley City MP Jansen asking for support on MAID bill
(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
July 17, 2025
An overlooked demographic has the highest suicide risk — and it’s been rising
(STAT News) – After a decade-long rise in suicide rates among young Americans — and with depression diagnoses soaring in this age group during the pandemic — the U.S. surgeon general issued a report in 2021 warning about the “devastating” … Read More
July 10, 2025
Suicides in Switzerland quadruple among older people
(SwissInfo) – The suicide rate among older people in Switzerland has reached record levels. The main reason for this is euthanasia. Other suicides are on the decline, but there is a significant gender difference. Senior citizens were 42 times more … Read More
July 3, 2025
CRC Helps Pastors Minister Where Assisted Suicide Is Legal
(Christianity Today) – The Reformed denomination “deplores” the legalization of the practice and offers recommendations for caring for the dying. As assisted suicide continues to grow in Canada and expands in the US, a major Reformed body has moved to … Read More
June 24, 2025
Liberals show no signs of limiting MAID despite ‘extremely concerned’ UN report
(National Post) – There is a lot of concern internationally within the disability rights community about what’s happening in Canada around euthanasia,’ a Conservative MP said (Read More)
June 20, 2025
Assisted dying set to become law in England and Wales after MPs pass bill
(The Guardian) – Terminally ill people in England and Wales are to be given the right to an assisted death in a historic societal shift that will transform end-of-life care. After months of argument, MPs narrowly voted in favour of … Read More
June 18, 2025
How NYT Magazine Threw Away Journalistic Ethics on Suicide
(Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) – There are also ethical standards that guide media outlets in reporting on suicide, in order to minimize the risk of glamorizing or idealizing it. These guidelines are based on research showing that the media … Read More
June 11, 2025
New York’s Assisted-Suicide Mistake
(Wall Street Journal) – Gov. Kathy Hochul can veto a law with few safeguards and no waiting period. New York’s Legislature embraces every progressive cause, and the latest is making it easier for people to kill themselves. The state Senate … Read More
June 10, 2025
A Killer Within Easy Reach
(New York Times) – Pesticides are a leading means of suicide. The tiny nation of Suriname is working to restrict access to one of the most common and dangerous ones. The tiny nation of Suriname, on South America’s Atlantic coast, … Read More
June 10, 2025
Lawmakers approve bill that would allow medically assisted suicide for terminally ill
(ABC News) – Terminally ill New Yorkers would have the legal ability to end their own lives with pharmaceutical drugs under a bill passed Monday in the state Legislature. The proposal, which now moves to the governor’s office, would allow … Read More
June 10, 2025
When they chose to die together, my grandparents wrote the final chapter of a love story spanning 70 years
(The Guardian) – Nan held my hand, convincing me this was what they wanted. I felt like a little girl, crying and being comforted by my grandmother one last time In their final moments, Ron and Irene lay together in … Read More
June 6, 2025
Assisted suicide implant invented for dementia patients
(Care) – Dr Philip Nitschke, inventor of the Sarco suicide pod, has unveiled plans for a controversial new device: an implantable ‘kill switch’ that would allow people diagnosed with dementia to end their lives at a later stage, regardless of … Read More
June 6, 2025
Assisted suicide could destroy the hospice movement
(The Spectator) – The hospice movement is one of the great achievements of post-war Britain. Inspired by the doctor Cicely Saunders, who in effect founded the field of palliative care, it has united cutting-edge research with a profound understanding of … Read More
June 3, 2025
Suicide pod activist takes his own life after being arrested for murder of woman who used the Sarco pod he promoted
(Daily Mail) – A euthanasia advocate who was quizzed by murder detectives after the death of a woman using a controversial Sarco euthanasia pod last year has died by assisted suicide, it was announced yesterday. Dr Florian Willet, 47, was … Read More
