June 17, 2019
Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 45, no. 2, 2019) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Should Clinicians Boycott Australian Immigration Detention?” by Ryan Essex “Advance Euthanasia Directives: A Controversial Case and Its Ethical Implications” by David Gibbes Miller, … Read More
June 12, 2019
(ABC News) – Maine legalized medically assisted suicide on Wednesday, becoming the eighth state to allow terminally ill people to end their lives with prescribed medication. Democratic Gov. Janet Mills, who had previously said she was unsure about the bill, … Read More
June 12, 2019
(Medscape) – Delegates voted overwhelmingly to affirm the current policy opposing physician-assisted dying here at the American Medical Association (AMA) 2019 Annual Meeting. After impassioned testimony from both sides at last year’s meeting, the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs … Read More
June 10, 2019
(The Atlantic) – In most countries, the debate over physician-assisted suicide has centered on adults in the final stages of incurable physical illnesses. Pothoven’s age and mental illness made her case quite different, which is why the initial English-language news … Read More
June 5, 2019
(ABC News) – A critical care doctor was arrested and charged with murder Wednesday in the deaths of 25 hospital patients authorities say were deliberately given overdoses of painkillers. The charges against Dr. William Husel, 43, form one of the … Read More
June 5, 2019
(Quartz) – Although the death happened with the cooperation of her family, as well as the knowledge of the authorities (a member of parliament visited Pothoven the day before she died), her death does not qualify as a case of … Read More
June 5, 2019
(Medical Xpress) – A new publication in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) aims to help health care teams navigate clinical and ethical issues that arise when patients choose to donate organs or tissue after medical assistance in dying (MAiD) or … Read More
June 4, 2019
(New York Post) – In The Netherlands, kids ages 12 to 16 need permission from a parent to be euthanized and must have consulted a doctor, who agrees that their suffering is unbearable and likely to continue. But at 17, … Read More
June 3, 2019
(Gizmodo) – A terminally ill patient who opted for assisted death has undergone cryonic preservation at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation. This preservation—the first of its kind—signifies an important milestone for cryonics advocates, who argue that the right to death, … Read More
June 3, 2019
(The Guardian) – Belgian prosecutors are to investigate a right-to-die group that has been offering advice on the use of a “suicide powder”. The Last Will group, which has about 23,000 paying members with an average age of 69, was … Read More
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