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April 10, 2021
Telehealth ban for VAD makes life and death difficult
A 2005 Federal Australian Government Telehealth ban for VAD makes life and death difficult in the country for anyone who wants to speak to their doctor or Exit using the telephone, fax, email or the Internet. This is a law that belongs in the likes of Nth Korea or China. But it continues to have […]
March 28, 2021
Canadian Psychiatrists are more open to VAD
Joan Bryden, The Canadian Press
A new survey has found that Canadian Psychiatrists are more open to VAD because of mental illness with their attitude having undergone a sea change over the past five years. When Canada first legalized assisted dying in 2016, a survey of its members by the Canadian Psychiatric Association found 54 per cent supported excluding people […]
March 10, 2021
If one cannot leave life, it is a prison
Profile with François Galichet, France Info 3
François Galichet is a former professor of philosophy, former vice-president of the association Ultime Liberté and former head of the Isère group Ultime Liberté, which campaigns for the legalization of assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia. Their motto? “The freedom to dispose of his person, his body and his life and therefore to kill himself” This […]
October 13, 2020
Dutch to Clarify Law on Euthanasia for Children aged > 1 year
The Dutch government is discussing whether to change or clarify the law to help terminally sick children aged between one and 12 to die. In a cabinet meeting earlier this week, health minister Hugo de Jonge raised the issue of a ‘grey area’ between doctors giving palliative sedation to relieve the suffering of these young […]
September 23, 2020
Fake News Alert: the State of Hawaii did not purchase 30 Sarcos!
In a Facebook post on 16 August 2020, the State of Hawaii reported the following: “As of January 1st, 2019, the state of Hawaii legalized assisted suicide. With the legalization, doctors can now prescribe death as a medical procedure. To aid Hawaii’s medical providers, we have purchased 30 passing assistance pods. These pods/machines are prescribed […]
September 6, 2020
Alain Cocq: Facebook Prevents Incurably Ill Man from Live Death
Facebook says it will prevent a Frenchman suffering from an incurable disease from broadcasting live his own death. Alain Cocq, 57, was planning to air his final days after starting to refuse food, drink and medicine on Saturday. President Emmanuel Macron had previously rejected his request for euthanasia. Mr. Cocq wants the law in France […]
August 25, 2020
Meet the woman campaigning for her right to die just for being old
Jacqueline Jencquel has been campaigning for the right to die for the past ten years. She gained popularity as a lobbyist for the cause after a Swiss newspaper came across her blog “La vieillesse est une maladie incurable” (Old age is an incurable disease). Jencquel is 76 years old, she’s not suffering from any serious […]
July 14, 2020
Is Pentobarbital ‘cruel and unusual’ punishment? Executions to Go Ahead
On Monday 13 July, it was reported that a Federal Court of Appeals Judge in Washington DC blocked the four federal executions schedule for July / August 2020 in various US states because ‘pentobarbital-only’ executions were argued to pose “an unconstitutionally significant risk of serious pain.” The US Supreme Court has since stepped in. Listen […]
June 7, 2020
My friend chose an assisted death in Switzerland. Her dying wish was to tell you why
Shortly after 11 a.m. on December 16, 2019, Cindy Siegel Shepler drew her last breath in a spartan room in Basel, Switzerland. The 62-year-old American twisted a knob on her IV pole and soon fell asleep for the last time. I had stayed with her and her husband David in Knoxville, Tennessee, for their last […]
December 6, 2019
WA assisted dying laws pass through upper house
The West Australian government is set to end the year with legislative victory after its euthanasia laws passed the upper house. Legislative Council MPs on Thursday voted 24-11 in favour of the bill, bringing to an end several months of heated and emotional debate. The upper house made more than 50 amendments during marathon debate […]