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March 17, 2024
Leading Scots Solicitor ends life in CH after long illness
One of Scotland’s leading solicitors has ended his own life in a Swiss clinic after a long illness. Exit Member, Bruce De Wert, who was suffering from a severe form of Multiple Sclerosis travelled from Scotland to Basel in Switzerland last month. The 69-year-old undertook the journey on his own having informed his family, including […]
March 15, 2024
Dutch Doctors Association Reject Completed Life Bill
In November 2023, the Dutch political party D66 submitted an amended ‘Completed Life’ (Voltooid Leven) bill to the Dutch Parliament. Responding to criticism, they tightened the eligibility criteria by mandating that people ‘aged 75 and older who feel that their life is complete and therefore want to end it with help at a time of […]
February 26, 2024
Canada’s assisted dying laws in spotlight as expansion paused again
Canada’s assisted dying laws in spotlight as expansion paused again Canada has one of the highest rates of euthanasia in the world, with 4.1% of deaths aided by doctors, but moves to make it more accessible are being questioned. When Canada’s justice minister announced plans to legalise medically assisted dying nearly a decade ago, she […]
November 27, 2023
ECHR Begins Hearing Right-to-Die Case
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) began hearing the case of Hungarian constitutional lawyer Daniel Karsai on Monday, in what observers say has raised long-overdue debates in Hungary about self-determination and ending life with dignity. Karsai, 47, is terminally ill with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a form of motor neurone disease, and is arguing […]
October 1, 2023
Widower suicide spurs euthanasia drug worry
The Australian newspaper reports that a ‘Widower suicide spurs euthanasia drug worry’. Voluntary assisted dying advocates insist euthanasia drugs should continue to be dispensed to dying people at home despite an elderly Queensland widower taking the lethal substance meant for his terminally ill wife. In the first suspected abuse of a VAD scheme in Australia, […]
February 21, 2023
Swiss Suicide Assist Doctor Acquitted After 5-year Battle
A Swiss doctor who helped a healthy elderly woman to commit suicide alongside her seriously-ill husband was acquitted by a Geneva court after a five-year legal odyssey, court papers showed Tuesday. Pierre Beck, who at the time of the couple’s deaths in April 2017 was vice-president of the assisted suicide provider group Exit in French-speaking […]
June 5, 2022
Scottish Assisted Suicide Bill is Delayed
A Scottish Assisted Suicide Bill is Delayed is the news from Orkney MSP, who pledged to bring forward assisted dying proposals this year. He has said that the bill will now be introduced at the start of next year, instead. Liam McArthur MSP has blamed an “unprecedented” response to a consultation on his plans as […]
May 19, 2022
NSW becomes the last Australian State to allow euthanasia
The Guardian, Michael McGowan and Tamsin Rose
NSW passes voluntary assisted dying laws after marathon upper house debate Dee Hilton already knows how she would like the end of her life to look. She imagines a glass of champagne with her siblings (“just a little bit for me”) and time with her children and grandchildren – the ones who are “old […]
May 7, 2022
With Artificial Intelligence Assisted Suicide is Ripe for Disruption
NeoLife reports that with With Artificial Intelligence Assisted Suicide is Ripe for Disruption. Now that she is semi-retired, Sally Curlewis, 73, from New South Wales, Australia, works in retail a couple of mornings a week and spends her afternoons taking care of her five grandchildren. She jokes that her husband of 52 years loves the […]
April 30, 2022
Dutch Mark 20 Years of Euthanasia
Dutch Mark 20 Years of Euthanasia reports Agence France Presse & Voice of America Golden butterflies adorn the walls of the Netherland’s only euthanasia expertise center, put up in remembrance of thousands of patients who have chosen to die with dignity over the past two decades. Situated in a leafy upmarket suburb of The Hague, […]
