ASSISTED SUICIDE

Is unbearable pain still a reason for euthanasia?

Michael Cook | 12 August 2016 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, euthanasia

If not, what reasons will be advanced next?

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California doctor opens end-of-life clinic

Michael Cook | 11 June 2016 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, California, commercialization

As soon as assisted suicide became legal, Lonny Shavelson was in business

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Victorian report recommends assisted suicide

Xavier Symons | 11 June 2016 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, Australia, Victoria

Parliamentary committee in Australian state calls for legislation

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A solution in search of a name

Michael Cook | 28 May 2016 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, euthanasia, nomenclature

Assisted suicide supporters cannot agree on what to call it

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Indigenous Canadians fear impending euthanasia law

Michael Cook | 30 April 2016 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, Canada, euthanasia, indigenous peoples, suicide

Suicide crisis in remote towns highlights need for caution

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“At some point, I stopped looking back”

Philip Elias | 01 March 2016 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, disability, Switzerland

Italian who once made an appointment with Dignitas has top job in government.

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Oregon releases its 2015 ‘death with dignity’ stats

Michael Cook | 20 February 2016 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, Oregon

Since legalisation 991 people have died.

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Clinton fumbles on end-of-life choices

Michael Cook | 13 February 2016 | Comments

tags: 2016 US election, assisted suicide, end of life issues, Hillary Clinton

No one had ever asked her about it before.

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JAMA debates assisted suicide

Michael Cook | 23 January 2016 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, euthanasia, JAMA

Legalisation in California has put it on the agenda everywhere.

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The underground Dutch system for do-it-yourself euthanasia

Michael Cook | 28 November 2015 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, euthanasia, Netherlands

Right-to-die groups are promoting a "peaceful pill"

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Nitschke tells medical board to go to blazes

Michael Cook | 28 November 2015 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, Australia, Philip Nitschke, rational suicide

Burns practicing certificate and announces plans for a right-to-die campaign

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Dutch doctors puzzled by religious immigrants’ attitude toward euthanasia

Michael Cook | 15 November 2015 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, euthanasia, Netherlands

Patients sometimes refuse morphine, fearing that doctors will kill them.

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How should the media cover euthanasia?

Michael Cook | 14 November 2015 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, euthanasia, media ethics, The Economist

Do ethical guidelines for suicide apply to activists' campaigns?

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Australia’s ‘Dr Death’ forced to stop promoting suicide

Michael Cook | 31 October 2015 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, Australia, Philip Nitschke

Severe conditions placed on Philip Nitschke's registration

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Assisted suicide now legal in California

Michael Cook | 10 October 2015 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, Brittany Maynard, California, Compassion & Choices

Governor Jerry Brown signs controversial bill.

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Fears of suicide contagion after victory in California

Michael Cook | 10 October 2015 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, euthanasia, suicide contagion, Werther effect

A study shows that physician-assisted suicide may not reduce the suicide rate.

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Catholic hospitals attacked for denying patients abortion and assisted suicide

Xavier Symons | 10 October 2015 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, Catholic health care, conscientious objection, sterilization

If they get federal funding, why shouldn't they provide legal services?

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“Unbearable suffering” questioned in documentary on Belgian euthanasia

Michael Cook | 19 September 2015 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, Belgium, euthanasia, unbearable suffering

85-year-old woman euthanised for grief before the camera.

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Fate of assisted suicide in California hinges on Governor

Michael Cook | 18 September 2015 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, California

The idiosyncratic Jerry Brown is mulling over whether or not to veto a bill.

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Ontario doctors squeezed on conscientious objection to assisted suicide

Michael Cook | 18 September 2015 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, Canada, conscientious objection, Ontario

Protests over being forced to refer.

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