EUTHANASIA

US study says assisted suicide laws rife with dangers to people with disabilities

Michael Cook | 13 October 2019 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, disabilities, euthanasia, united states

People will be forced to take a low-cost option, National Council on Disability warns

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What Canada’s candidates have to say about MAiD

Xavier Symons | 13 October 2019 | Comments

tags: canada, euthanasia, euthanasia for psychological suffering, law, maid

Trudeau will expand MAiD access if re-elected.

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Bioethicists defend euthanasia for mentally ill

Xavier Symons | 09 October 2019 | Comments

tags: euthanasia, euthanasia for psychological suffering, law, maid

Is there a meaningful difference between physical and psychological suffering?

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Canada’s MAiD under fire after euthanasia of depressed patient

Xavier Symons | 29 September 2019 | Comments

tags: canada, depression, euthanasia, maid

The man's family allege that he was not eligible for MAiD.

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Italy’s highest court rules that assisted suicide is permissible

Michael Cook | 29 September 2019 | Comments

tags: euthanasia, italy

Sets some boundaries

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English juries grapple with ‘mercy killing’

Michael Cook | 22 September 2019 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, euthanasia, mercy killing

Two recent cases in England show how tricky it is

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Canadian Catholic hospital drops opposition to MAiD after criticism from bioethicist

Xavier Symons | 22 September 2019 | Comments

tags: canada, catholic church, euthanasia, maid, nova scotia

A Catholic hospital in Nova Scotia has quietly changed its policy on euthanasia

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A judge loosens Canada’s euthanasia belt another notch or two

Michael Cook | 15 September 2019 | Comments

tags: canada, euthanasia, slippery slope

Patients no longer need to be terminally ill

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Dutch doctor acquitted of unlawful euthanasia

Michael Cook | 15 September 2019 | Comments

tags: euthanasia, euthanasia for dementia, netherlands

The first in the history of the controversial law to trigger criminal charges

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Australia’s legislative laboratory for euthanasia

Michael Cook | 01 September 2019 | Comments

tags: australia, euthanasia

After Victoria, Western Australia and Queensland?

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Dutch doctor in court over euthanasia of demented woman

Michael Cook | 01 September 2019 | Comments

tags: euthanasia, netherlands

Relatives had to hold her down during lethal injection

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Why the mentally ill deserve access to assisted suicide

Michael Cook | 01 September 2019 | Comments

tags: euthanasia, euthanasia for dementia, euthanasia for psychological suffering

An Australian philosopher argues that turning their requests down is discriminatory

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UPDATES: Jeffrey Epstein. NSW abortion bill. Victoria euthanasia death

Michael Cook | 09 August 2019 | Comments

tags: abortion, euthanasia, new south wales, transhumanism, victoria

Following up important stories of past weeks

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Nitschke keeps on pressing those buttons

Michael Cook | 03 August 2019 | Comments

tags: euthanasia, philip nitschke

Now it is live-streamed suicides

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Victoria issues first assisted suicide permit

Michael Cook | 28 July 2019 | Comments

tags: australia, euthanasia, victoria

Identity of patient kept secret

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‘The last frontier in prison reform’: assisted suicide?

Michael Cook | 21 July 2019 | Comments

tags: euthanasia, euthanasia for prisoners, prisoner euthanasia

Denying inmates the right is ‘cruel and unusual punishment’

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Daniel Callahan, bioethics pioneer, dies at 88

Xavier Symons | 20 July 2019 | Comments

tags: abortion, communitarianism, daniel callahan, euthanasia, stem-cell research

Bioethics pioneer Daniel Callahan, co-founder of The Hastings Center, has died aged 88.

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Vincent Lambert died on Thursday at 8.24am

Michael Cook | 13 July 2019 | Comments

tags: euthanasia, vincent lambert

Doctors had removed his nutrition and hydration nine days before

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Is euthanasia the only way out if you can’t afford your medication?

Michael Cook | 13 July 2019 | Comments

tags: euthanasia

A Belgian man with an orphan disease believes it is 

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Vincent Lambert to die

Michael Cook | 06 July 2019 | Comments

tags: euthanasia, france, vincent lambert

France’s highest court rules that doctors can remove hydration and nutrition

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