November 18, 2022
Hastings Center Report (vol. 52, no. 5, 2022) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Burdening Others” by Brent Kious “On the Authority of Advance Euthanasia Directives for People with Severe Dementia: Reflections on a Dutch Case” by Henri … Read More
November 14, 2022
BMC Medical Ethics has new articles available online. Articles include: “How to Deal with Moral Challenges around the Decision-Making Competence in Transgender Adolescent Care? Development of an Ethics Support Tool” by Janine de Snoo-Trimp, et al. “Moral Values of Dutch … Read More
November 11, 2022
Ethics, Medicine, and Public Health (vol. 24, 2022) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Knowledge, Attitude and Practice regarding Organ Donation among Medical Students: A Survey” by R. Jadhav, A.K. Bose, and A.G. Shenoy “Does Experience Affect Physicians’ … Read More
November 10, 2022
(RFA) – The Chinese health ministry says statistics on suicides under the country’s zero-COVID policy of rolling lockdowns and electronic tracking “are not for release,” after reports that a woman threw herself from a building under lockdown in Inner Mongolia. … Read More
October 25, 2022
(La Maison Simons) – A Canadian film project that promotes Canada’s medical aid-in-dying from La Maison Simons, Canada’s style authority since 1840.
October 25, 2022
(Medscape) – Performing euthanasia for “mental suffering that cannot be alleviated” is still considered an extraordinary measure. Indeed, fewer than 2% of the requests for euthanasia fall within that category, and few such requests are made by young patients. There … Read More
October 19, 2022
(Wall Street Journal) – Suicides in prisons and jails across the U.S. have risen sharply over the past two years, data collected by The Wall Street Journal show, a trend that officials and inmate advocates say is driven in part … Read More
October 10, 2022
(NPR) – Amazon is facing a lawsuit accusing it of selling so-called suicide kits, brought by the families of two teenagers who bought a deadly chemical on the company’s website and later used it to take their own lives. The … Read More
October 10, 2022
(Associated Press) – Activists calling for the decriminalization of assisted suicide in the Netherlands took the Dutch government to court Monday, arguing that its ban on helping a person end their life breaches human rights. The case at The Hague … Read More
October 10, 2022
(Associated Press) – In March, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced the creation of an independent committee to review the military’s mental health and suicide prevention programs. According to Defense Department data, suicides among active-duty service members increased by more than … Read More
