March 23, 2026
Scottish Law Fails to Pass
LONDON (AP) — Lawmakers in the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday rejected legislation that would have made Scotland the first part of the United Kingdom to allow terminally ill adults to end their lives reports Reports Jill Lawless at Associated Press. Members of the Edinburgh-based legislature voted 69 to 57 against a bill that would have […]
March 19, 2026
Alberta Seeks to Turn Back the Clock on MAiD
Proposed new legislation in Alberta Canada would prevent anyone in the Province from accessing medical assistance in dying (MAID) unless they are unlikely to die within the next 12 months reports Janet French @ CBC. ‘Bill 18, the Safeguards for Last Resort Termination of Life Act’, if passed, would prevent doctors or nurse practitioners from […]
March 15, 2026
Scottish Bill Gets 175 Amendments
Members of the Scottish Parliament are due to vote on their Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults bill this coming Tuesday reports the BBC. MSPs have finished their revisions to the assisted dying bill with 175 amendments accepted during the past week. An unusual Friday sitting of the Scottish Parliament was held, allowing a fourth […]
March 8, 2026
Widespread VAD Support Recorded in Scotland
Speaking after he met terminally ill Scots outside the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday morning, Liam McArthur MSP has today said that parliamentarians should listen to the public and back his Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults bill with new constituency-level polling showing consistent, high levels of support for assisted dying is published. MRP analysis of […]
February 27, 2026
Jersey approves bill to legalise assisted dying for terminally ill adults
Jersey’s parliament has given final approval to a bill to legalise assisted dying for terminally ill adults who live on the island reports Harriet Sherwood. Members of the States Assembly voted by 32 to 16 on Thursday in favour of the bill, which will now need royal assent before it becomes law. A private member’s […]
February 15, 2026
He knows how he wants to die …
With his research, Boudewijn Chabot (84) provided insight into dying on one’s own terms for the first time. A repeat study of that work was published on Friday. Now that his own end is in sight, he knows that he will stop eating and drinking. “It’s a long goodbye.” This article was written by Haro […]
February 8, 2026
BMJ Reports on UK Bill
Many lords are focused on optimising patient choice, safety, and control at the end of life, but as lords ourselves we are concerned that numerous amendments from ideological opponents risk undermining the bill entirely, write Dianne Hayter and colleagues Last summer, the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill to regulate medically assisted dying in […]
February 7, 2026
New York adopts medical aid in dying with new safeguards
Joshua Villanueva reports for The Jurist New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed the “Medical Aid in Dying Act” on Friday, making New York the latest state to authorize physician-assisted dying for certain terminally ill patients. The law represents a major policy reversal in a state where the highest court had previously emphasized that assisted suicide […]
