February 19, 2020
(Dutch News) – Large-scale research into euthanasia requests made by psychiatric patients shows women are over-represented, Trouw reported on Tuesday. The figures were collated by the Euthanasia expertise centre at the request of the health ministry which wants to gain … Read More
February 13, 2020
(Reuters) – A bill to allow euthanasia and assisted suicide in certain cases cleared its first hurdle in the Spanish parliament on Tuesday, in a win for Spain’s new left-wing government that will reignite a bitter debate on the issue. … Read More
February 10, 2020
(TIME) – A Dutch organization that carries out euthanasia received 3,122 requests last year, a 22% increase from the year before, the Euthanasia Expertise Center said Friday. “Every work day, 13 people say: ‘Help me, I can’t go on,’” Steven … Read More
February 7, 2020
(Medical Xpress) – The Netherlands’ only euthanasia clinic said on Friday there had been a 22 percent jump in people wanting help to end their lives last year compared with 2018. The Euthanasia Expertise Centre, which helps doctors to carry … Read More
February 3, 2020
(BBC) – A court in Belgium has acquitted three doctors accused of unlawfully poisoning a woman whose life they helped to end. Tine Nys, 38, died surrounded by her family on 27 April 2010. In the landmark case, her sisters … Read More
January 28, 2020
(Global News) – The Quebec government is backtracking on its plan to expand medical aid in dying to include people with severe and incurable mental illness. Health Minister Danielle McCann made the announcement on Monday as a forum on the … Read More
January 22, 2020
(Kaiser Health News) – One key question is whether patients with dementia ? or those who fear the disease ? can say in advance that they want oral food and fluids stopped at a certain point, a move that would … Read More
January 14, 2020
(The New York Times) – Three Belgian doctors go on trial for murder on Tuesday for helping a woman end her life, in the country’s first criminal case concerning euthanasia. The doctors, whose names have not been made public, are … Read More
January 13, 2020
(Ottawa Citizen) – Ontarians who opt for medically assisted deaths (MAiD) are increasingly saving or improving other people’s lives by also including organ and tissue donation as part of their final wishes. In the first 11 months of 2019, MAiD … Read More
January 10, 2020
(STAT News) – As a bioethicist, I fear that this optimism may be blinding us to a genuine moral horror: being trapped in this way may be a form of unwitting medical torture. Owen and his team have been able … Read More
