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July 4, 2021
Italy Gets 750,000+ Signatures for its Referendum
Italy Gets 750,000+ Signatures for its Referendum for its referendum which means that the country looks set to repeal the punishment for assistance in dying of a consenting individual. According to Philip Nitschke this amounts to Swiss model law reform. In 2013 the Italian right to die group, Association Luca Coscioni presented a legislative proposal […]
July 4, 2021
Victoria’s voluntary assisted dying is challenging & complicated
The Conversation, Ben White & Lindy Willmott
In an article published this week on The Conversation website titled Victoria’s voluntary assisted dying scheme is challenging and complicated, authors Ben While and Lindy Willmott argue that some people are dying while they wait to qualify to use the law. They write: Voluntary assisted dying laws, which allow terminally ill people who meet strict […]
June 27, 2021
Voluntary assisted dying to become law in South Australia
The ABC reports: Voluntary assisted dying to become law in South Australia after a three-decade long battle by voluntary euthanasia campaigners, South Australia has become the fourth state in the nation to pass legislation on voluntary assisted dying, after eleventh-hour amendments to the bill, so says the ABC. Key points South Australia has joined Victoria, […]
June 20, 2021
Scotland to Consider Assisted Dying Again
Scotland to Consider Assisted Dying Again in a new bill to legalise assisted dying [that] will be lodged at the Scottish Parliament, the BBC has learned. The proposals – brought forward by Liberal Democrat MSP Liam McArthur – aim to introduce the right to an assisted death for terminally ill, mentally competent adults. Previous attempts […]
May 30, 2021
California Advocates for More Humane EOL Law
This week news that yet another End of Life Choices law is to be made more progressive with the move that ‘California Advocates for More Humane EOL Law’, thus proving that medicalised laws have – by their very nature – restrictions which can be cruel and unnecessarily cumbersome to those dying people who are seeking […]
May 9, 2021
Swiss doctor Erika Preisig is cleared of murder again
The Swiss doctor Erika Preisig is cleared of murder again of helping a mentally ill woman take her life has once more been cleared of intentional homicide. A Swiss appeals court in canton Basel rejected attempts by prosecutors to overturn a 2019 verdict that had cleared the doctor of murder. The court upheld the earlier […]
