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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 […]
November 26, 2019
Vast Majority Support Euthanasia – NL
Hollandse Hoogte / Frank Muller / Zorginbeeld @ CBS.nl
Euthanasia should under certain circumstances be allowed, according to 87 percent of the adult population in the Netherlands. Conversely, 8 percent are opposed to euthanasia under all circumstances and 5 percent are unable or unwilling to say anything about it. Statistics Netherlands (CBS) reports this based on the survey Perceptions 2018. Religion plays an important […]