Assisted Suicide

The latest twist in the saga of assisted suicide in Canada – or Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID), as the Canadians prefer to call it – involves an Ontario man in his late 40s who the government killed for “post Covid-19 vaccination syndrome.”

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Scotland has slammed a proposal to legalize assisted suicide in the country, asserting that the bill buys into a “false understanding of compassion.”

Nearly 900 people died by assisted suicide in 2023 in California, according to a state department of health report released this month.

Emmanuel Macron announced legislation to legalize “aid in dying” that will allow adults facing end-of-life illness to take lethal medication.

Canada is expected to lead the world in assisted suicide deaths under its medical assistance in dying (MAID) program as soon as 2025, the Toronto Star reported. 

Canada has indefinitely delayed its plan to expand Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) to patients with only mental illness.

A 37-year-old Vancouver woman says a hospital clinician proposed medically assisted suicide when she sought help for depression.

Canada’s National Post on Tuesday published the results of a poll that show nearly a third of Canadians believe assisted suicide should be offered to homeless people who are weary of their lives.

A Canadian man has reportedly been arrested by police after allegedly selling poison to suicidal individuals online.

Assisted suicide is “moral progress” and should also be available for those suffering mental illness, according to a recent New York Times piece.

The president of the Pontifical Academy for Life has walked back statements in support of legalized assisted suicide, accusing journalists of having misinterpreted his thought.

The president of the Pontifical Academy for Life said he is personally opposed to assisted suicide but would not exclude it for others who wish to avail themselves of it.

It will soon be legal to Euthanise children with certain terminal illnesses in the Netherlands, reports on Friday have claimed.

Activists pushing for the adoption of assisted suicide laws are framing their agenda using the “bodily autonomy” argument.

A Canadian committee has recommended the government expand its assisted suicide policies for “mature minors”.

The legalisation of assisted suicide could become a “cost saving” measure for the UK’s socialised healthcare system, a church leader warned.

Christian doctors are standing against a law that requires them to facilitate suicide in ways that violate their religious convictions.

Court upholds the ban on assisted suicide, a setback for activists who say prohibition infringes their right to determine when life ends.

Canada’s impending expansion of assisted suicide to people suffering from mental illness is sounding alarms across the country and around the world, especially given the woefully inadequate funding for mental health in Canada’s public health care system.

Canadian populist leader Bernier slammed a retailer for their viral commercial, criticising the store for trying to make suicide seem “cool.”

Leading Canadian fashion retailer La Maison Simons launched a new ad campaign titled “All Is Beauty” that is being accused of “promoting” and “romanticizing” assisted suicide.

Canadian religious leaders are speaking out with growing concern as the clock ticks down on the activation of new policies that would allow mentally ill people to be euthanized with remarkable speed — just 90 days after two doctors approve the request for assisted suicide.

A Flemish woman who was present at the Brussels National Airport in 2016 during a radical Islamic terror attack has been euthanised at the age of 23 due to psychological trauma and suffering.

A Canadian armed forces veteran with a brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was offered medically-assisted suicide by a Veterans Affairs Canada employee while seeking treatment.

A 44-year-old quadriplegic man has been given the green light by a regional Italian health authority to become the second person offered assisted suicide in the country.

ROME — Pope Francis warned against the twin temptations of euthanasia and assisted suicide Wednesday, insisting no one has a “right” to die.

New Zealand’s Ministry of Health has confirmed that patients suffering from the Wuhan coronavirus could be eligible for a right to a lethal injection under the nation’s new euthanasia law.

A 3D-printed suicide pod may be ready for the Swiss market as early as 2022, according to its designers.

A British lawmaker claimed that Christ’s death on the cross was “assisted” by a “kindly centurion” during a debate on “assisted dying” — as euthanasia is now euphemistically known — in the House of Lords. 

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales is urging Catholics to actively resist the Assisted Dying Bill, calling it “an unprecedented attack on the sanctity of life.”

Portugal’s high court ruled Monday that a law allowing “medically assisted death” passed by parliament in January is unconstitutional.

The Catholic bishops of Ireland have forcefully criticized the Dying with Dignity Bill, calling assisted suicide “a failure of compassion on the part of society.”

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has voted in the nation’s general election, a week before polls officially close.

No good intentions can justify the intentional killing of an innocent person, the Vatican reiterated Tuesday in a new document condemning euthanasia and assisted suicide.

Dutch doctors are asking their older patients to choose between either long-term ventilation or letting nature take its course if they become infected with the Chinese coronavirus.

The Spanish parliament has approved a proposed law by the new Socialist-led government to legalize euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide.