A Canadian doctor has been placed under supervision by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) after an investigation into his Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) practice found serious breaches of protocol — including assessing a man for MAID outside a Tim Hortons restaurant.
An assisted suicide bill that would allow certain terminally ill adults to take life-ending drugs has been introduced in the Michigan House of Representatives.
Kennedy called assisted suicide laws “abhorrent” and pointed to Canada’s bloating “MAID” program as a cautionary tale for the United States.
Noelia Castillo Ramos, the 25 year-old Spanish gang rape victim from Barcelona who lived a troubled life, died by euthanasia on Thursday evening.
Noelia Castillo Ramos, a Spanish 25-year-old gang rape victim from Barcelona, is slated to receive euthanasia Thursday following a lengthy legal battle by her father who sought to stop the procedure.
Canada is on its way to recording 100,000 deaths from assisted suicide as pro-life advocates are voicing strong objections to the practice.
Not all suffering can be cured, but no suffering renders a person disposable. When the state accepts the premise of assisted suicide that some lives are no longer worth supporting, safeguards erode.
A majority of Slovenian voters on Sunday voted to suspend a law that legalized assisted dying for terminally ill patients. Preliminary vote counts from Slovenia’s State Election Commission at press time reportedly indicate that the law was rejected by around
Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID), Canada’s preferred euphemism for euthanasia, has become so popular practitioners struggle to meet demand.
The United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) is asking the Canadian government to scale back its Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program of doctor-assisted suicide.
Canada is experiencing a significant surge in deaths by euthanasia, according to a report released this week by the Canadian government.
After an impassioned debate, members of Parliament approved the so-called assisted dying bill by a vote of 330 to 275.
The latest twist in the saga of assisted suicide in Canada – or Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID), as the Canadians prefer to call it – involves an Ontario man in his late 40s who the government killed for “post Covid-19 vaccination syndrome.”
Legislative proposals to give terminally ill people in England and Wales the choice to end their life are to be introduced at Westminster this month following the progress Thursday of an assisted dying bill in Parliament.
An editor at the Wall Street Journal noted this week that Canada’s assisted suicide regime has gone off the rails and is now the fifth leading cause of death in the country.
A request by deceased French actor Alain Delon for his pet dog to be put down and buried alongside him has been denied.
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.
Canada is expected to lead the world in assisted suicide deaths under its medical assistance in dying (MAID) program as soon as 2025, the Toronto Star reported.
Cuba’s Communist Party approved changes to the nation’s health code that, once formally implemented, will allow euthanasia.
Belgian Catholic Bishop Johan Bonny sparked controversy by suggesting that euthanasia is not necessarily morally wrong in all circumstances.
Pope Francis condemned France’s proposed end-of-life legislation Saturday, asserting that “life is not to be played with.”
Euthanasia has become so common in Quebec that its end-of-life commissioner fears suicide is no longer seen as a “last resort.”
A transsexual Canadian requested assisted suicide in order to end long-term suffering and pain from surgery to manufacture a “neo-vagina”.
The cases included five people younger than 30 who cited autism as either the only reason or a major contributing factor for euthanasia.
Canada looks set to face another record-shattering year of euthanasia deaths in 2023 after a reported 35 percent rise to some 13,500 state-sponsored suicides in 2022, an analysis of official data shows.
Canada’s National Post on Tuesday published the results of a poll that show nearly a third of Canadians believe assisted suicide should be offered to homeless people who are weary of their lives.
It will soon be legal to Euthanise children with certain terminal illnesses in the Netherlands, reports on Friday have claimed.
Activists pushing for the adoption of assisted suicide laws are framing their agenda using the “bodily autonomy” argument.
Yusuke Narita, a 37-year-old economics professor at Yale, says the solution for Japan’s population problem is “mass suicide and mass ‘seppuku” of the elderly.
The legalisation of assisted suicide could become a “cost saving” measure for the UK’s socialised healthcare system, a church leader warned.
Christian doctors are standing against a law that requires them to facilitate suicide in ways that violate their religious convictions.
Canada’s impending expansion of assisted suicide to people suffering from mental illness is sounding alarms across the country and around the world, especially given the woefully inadequate funding for mental health in Canada’s public health care system.
Leading Canadian fashion retailer La Maison Simons launched a new ad campaign titled “All Is Beauty” that is being accused of “promoting” and “romanticizing” assisted suicide.
The Canadian healthcare system is experiencing an acute shortage of basic painkillers, particularly acetaminophen and ibuprofen, which are commonly used to relieve pain and fever in children during flu season.
A document for doctors in Canada has suggested that they bring up the topic of euthanasia before their patients do.
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 44-year-old quadriplegic man has been given the green light by a regional Italian health authority to become the second person offered assisted suicide in the country.
A Japanese filmmaker is shaking Cannes film audiences to the core with a dystopian vision of her country in which old people agree to be euthanized to solve the challenge of a rapidly aging population. “Plan 75” by Japanese director
