France’s Macron Announces ‘Aid in Dying’ Euthanasia Legislation
Emmanuel Macron announced legislation to legalize “aid in dying” that will allow adults facing end-of-life illness to take lethal medication.
Emmanuel Macron announced legislation to legalize “aid in dying” that will allow adults facing end-of-life illness to take lethal medication.
Former Dutch Prime Minister Dries van Agt and his wife committed legally assisted suicide by euthanasia simultaneously this week.
The legalisation of assisted suicide could become a “cost saving” measure for the UK’s socialised healthcare system, a church leader warned.
A Flemish woman who was present at the Brussels National Airport in 2016 during a radical Islamic terror attack has been euthanised at the age of 23 due to psychological trauma and suffering.
A Canadian armed forces veteran with a brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was offered medically-assisted suicide by a Veterans Affairs Canada employee while seeking treatment.
A 3D-printed suicide pod may be ready for the Swiss market as early as 2022, according to its designers.
A British lawmaker claimed that Christ’s death on the cross was “assisted” by a “kindly centurion” during a debate on “assisted dying” — as euthanasia is now euphemistically known — in the House of Lords.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has voted in the nation’s general election, a week before polls officially close.
Dutch doctors are asking their older patients to choose between either long-term ventilation or letting nature take its course if they become infected with the Chinese coronavirus.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said he looks forward to signing the assisted suicide bill state lawmakers narrowly approved Monday, allowing terminally ill individuals to legally end their lives.
LONDON (AP) — A British man who is terminally ill with motor neuron disease asked the High Court in London on Monday to let him end his life.
A Dutch physician who had family members restrain a struggling woman so she could administer a lethal injection has been cleared of wrongdoing by a review board.
An attempt to legalize voluntary euthanasia in an Australian state was defeated by a single vote in parliament on Thursday.
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
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”
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