
A review of the evidence on assisted dying has found “common patterns” indicating that the practice becomes more widespread and routine where introduced. The report lends credence to fears that introducing legislation to allow for assisted dying in some instances
by Donna Rachel Edmunds21 Aug 2015, 5:02 AM PST0

A healthy woman has ended her life at a suicide clinic in Switzerland rather than face old age. A palliative care nurse during her working life, she had previously said that she thought old people were “a burden on society”
by Donna Rachel Edmunds3 Aug 2015, 6:55 AM PST0

Just over a decade on from assisted dying being legalised in the Netherlands, as many as 1 in 33 Dutch people are thought to have died this way, including 650 babies a year, euthanized so that their parents don’t have
by Donna Rachel Edmunds2 Jan 2015, 4:12 AM PST0