Stories about end-of-life issues, death with dignity, and the Right to Die movement
Tuscany becomes the first region to approve assisted suicide in Roman Catholic Italy
Tuscany approved a bill regulating medically assisted suicide Tuesday, becoming Italy’s first region to approve a right-to-die law in the Roman Catholic country after the constitutional court effectively legalized the…
Who chooses medically assisted death?
This is a data-based discussion of who chooses MAID, that addresses the arguments and dispels the myths against it. Last December, researchers in the U.S., Canada, and Europe published a study in JAMA…
Derek Humphry obituary: Right to die advocate and Hemlock Society founder
Derek Humphry, founder of the National Hemlock Society in 1980, died January 2, 2025, at age 94. Without Derek’s publications, his attempts to change the law to allow aid in…
California’s Assisted Suicide Debate Deepens: Senator Pushes for Dementia Inclusion
California State Senator Catherine Blakespear is reigniting the debate over assisted suicide by seeking to expand the state’s End of Life Option Act (EOLOA). The 2016 law, which allows terminally…
Canada Supreme Court to address whether assisted suicide can ever be murder
Alleged suicide kit salesman files in Supreme Court to contest whether assisted suicide can ever be murder Lawyers representing the Ontario man accused of selling hundreds of suicide kits with…
Delaware Governor Carney vetoes Medical-Aid-in-Dying legislation
Governor John Carney Friday vetoed legislation that would have allowed people with a terminal illness who are able to make sound decisions for themselves to get access to medication that…
Should euthanasia be allowed for those with mental illnesses?
Legislators and doctors are struggling to define who should have the right to die. Milou Verhoof was a physically healthy teenager from the Netherlands when she asked to be allowed to…
Citizens’ jury in England backs assisted dying for terminally ill
A citizens’ jury has overwhelmingly backed the legalisation of assisted dying for terminally ill people after hearing from experts over a period of eight weeks. Twenty out of 28 jurors based…
Euthanasia in India: An Overview
Euthanasia in the simplest sense involves intentionally ending a person’s life to relieve ongoing suffering such as suffering from an irrecoverable or an incurable state of being and is a…