December 2, 2024
(Associated Press) – British lawmakers gave initial approval on Friday to a bill to help terminally ill adults end their lives in England and Wales, following an impassioned debate that saw people sharing personal stories of loss and suffering. Members … Read More
December 2, 2024
(The Spectator) – Those all seem to me good, cogent and to my mind compelling arguments for rejecting the proposed bill on Assisted Dying. Yet I can’t help thinking that Christian faith still has something deeper to bring to this … Read More
December 2, 2024
(BBC) – A transsexual has been helped to die by doctors in Belgium, after a series of failed sex-change operations. Nathan Verhelst, born a girl, asked for help to end his life on grounds of psychological suffering. He died in … Read More
November 27, 2024
(BBC) – For the first time in almost a decade MPs are going to vote on giving terminally ill adults in England and Wales the right to have an assisted death. While it’s something that remains illegal in most countries, … Read More
November 25, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Actress Liz Carr warns that no society can permit assisted suicide without endangering the disabled. When an able-bodied person says something like that about himself, it’s a tragedy, and society seeks to prevent suicide. Plaques offering … Read More
November 21, 2024
(Associated Press via MSN) – The right-to-die activist behind a new “suicide capsule” says he rejects “absurd” allegations that the U.S. woman who was said to be its first user may have actually been strangled. Philip Nitschke of advocacy group … Read More
November 20, 2024
(New York Times) – Her fight for disability rights included founding a group called Not Dead Yet, which protested the work of Dr. Jack Kevorkian and others. Diane Coleman, a fierce advocate for disability rights who took on Dr. Jack … Read More
November 18, 2024
(The Telegraph via MSN) – The assisted dying bill risks opening the door to “non-voluntary euthanasia”, the former chief coroner has warned. Ahead of a free vote on assisted dying at the end of the month, Thomas Teague KC, who … Read More
November 18, 2024
(New York Times) – Earlier this year, my mother ended her life via medical aid in dying, also known as MAID. She had A.L.S., so she was suffering in many ways, and her choice to die in this manner felt … Read More
November 18, 2024
Hastings Center Report (vol. 54, Issue 5, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
November 15, 2024
(Military.com) – Suicides increased among U.S. military personnel last year, an ongoing trend Pentagon officials say they plan to address with a $125 million investment in prevention and mental health programs next year. The rate for active-duty personnel rose to … Read More
November 12, 2024
(Daily Mail) – Pressuring someone to end their lives will be a crime punishable by up to 14 years’ imprisonment under the proposed legalisation of assisted suicide, it last night emerged. Details of the long-awaited Terminally Ill Adults (End of … Read More
November 12, 2024
(The New Atlantis) – Ontario’s euthanasia regulators have tracked 428 cases of possible criminal violations — and not referred a single case to law enforcement, say leaked documents. For years, there have been clear signals that euthanasia providers in Canada … Read More
October 31, 2024
(CTV News Vancouver) – A B.C. judge took the extraordinary measure of preventing a woman’s medically assisted death, issuing an 11th-hour court order to halt the procedure, according to documents filed over the weekend. The injunction, signed by Justice Simon … Read More
October 29, 2024
(Metro via MSN) – The first person to use a suicide pod in Switzerland was found with strangulation marks on her neck, it has been reported. A 64-year-old American woman died inside the capsule on September 23 after pushing a … Read More
October 28, 2024
(National Post) – The case is among several highlighted by an Ontario MAID death review committee involving people who weren’t terminally ill An Ontario man in his late 40s with a history of mental illness died by euthanasia after his … Read More
October 21, 2024
(9 News) – An 86-year-old with terminal lung and heart problems has applied to end his own life because of blown-out wait times for federal government assistance. Cyril Tooze is one of 70,000 elderly Australians left waiting to receive at-home … Read More
October 17, 2024
(Associated Press) – As Canada pushes to expand euthanasia and more countries move to legalize it, health care workers here are grappling with requests from people whose pain might be alleviated by money, adequate housing or social connections. And internal … Read More
October 15, 2024
(Wired) – The death of an American woman inside Philip Nitschke’s latest invention reveals the next frontier in the right-to-die debate. With the Sarco pod, Nitschke proposes taking the assessment process out of the hands of medical professionals—whom he calls … Read More
October 14, 2024
(The Telegraph) – Patient asked about ‘medical assistance in dying’ as critics say euthanasia has spiralled out of control A woman undergoing life-saving cancer surgery in Canada was offered assisted suicide by doctors as she was about to enter the … Read More
October 14, 2024
BMC Medical Ethics has new articles available online. Articles include:
October 10, 2024
(BBC) – Proposals to give terminally ill people in England and Wales the right to choose to end their life are to be introduced in Parliament this month. Labour MP Kim Leadbeater is putting forward the bill and said “now … Read More
October 8, 2024
(Metro News) – West Virginians who vote in the coming general election will have a question posed about whether the state constitution should be amended to explicitly prohibit physician-assisted deaths. Amendment One, which presents a heavy question about life and … Read More
October 3, 2024
(The Times Weekly) – Since our health care system does not treat everyone equally, the practice of physician – assisted suicide raises the risk for those who often do not get the same access and treatment as others. This includes … Read More
September 27, 2024
The Journal of Medicine & Philosophy (vol. 49, no. 5, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
