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October 16, 2024
The Conversation Explains the 5 Steps Needed for EOL Law
The Conversation reports Labour backbench MP Kim Leadbeater has introduced a bill in the House of Commons that aims to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales. Leadbeater is not a member of the government, but has been able to introduce the terminally ill adults (end of life) bill after topping this session’s private members’ […]
October 15, 2024
The Doctor Behind ‘Suicide Pod’ Wants AI to Assist EOL
The Doctor Behind the ‘Suicide Pod’ Wants AI to Assist at the End of Life The death of an American woman inside Philip Nitschke’s latest invention reveals the next frontier in the right-to-die debate. The world’s first assisted suicide pod wraps around the human body like a space capsule, tilting gently toward the sky. The […]
October 5, 2024
UK to consider bill for assisted dying for terminally ill
LONDON, Oct 4 (Reuters) – British lawmakers will soon consider whether to give terminally ill adults a choice to end their own lives with medical assistance, after what proponents say is a shift in public opinion since a similar measure was rejected a decade ago. Kim Leadbeater, a lawmaker from Britain’s governing Labour Party who […]
October 2, 2024
Wim van Dijk Trial Begins
Written by Wim Heesterbeek & Mees van Roosmalen After his wife was admitted to a nursing home with Alzheimer’s, psychologist Wim van Dijk from Den Bosch immersed himself in the law of euthanasia. His project ended with him starting to sell hundreds of ‘kits’ of the deadly Drug X to people who wanted it, something […]
October 2, 2024
Dutch Psychiatrists rebuked
The federation of doctors KNMG has called the behaviour of 14 prominent psychiatrists who urged the public prosecution office to take action in the case of the euthanasia of a 17-year-old girl “indecent and unacceptable”. The KNMG, which also arbitrates in matters of ethics, said the psychiatrists were wrong to send a letter in which […]
October 1, 2024
‘Lisette’ by French-Australian Author Catherine Rey
The Story of the Totally Remarkable Lisette Nigot Lisette is a moving tribute to the remarkable person we know as Lisette Nigot, the woman who ‘didn’t want to turn 80’. French-born, Lisette immigrated to the US immediately after WW2 where she created a career for herself as publicist at the famed Waldorf Astoria hotel. Mingling […]
