euthanasia

After an impassioned debate, members of Parliament approved the so-called assisted dying bill by a vote of 330 to 275.

Legislative proposals to give terminally ill people in England and Wales the choice to end their life are to be introduced at Westminster this month following the progress Thursday of an assisted dying bill in Parliament.

An editor at the Wall Street Journal noted this week that Canada’s assisted suicide regime has gone off the rails and is now the fifth leading cause of death in the country.

A request by deceased French actor Alain Delon for his pet dog to be put down and buried alongside him has been denied.

Former Dutch Prime Minister Dries van Agt and his wife committed legally assisted suicide by euthanasia simultaneously this week.

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. 

Cuba’s Communist Party approved changes to the nation’s health code that, once formally implemented, will allow euthanasia.

Pope Francis condemned France’s proposed end-of-life legislation Saturday, asserting that “life is not to be played with.”

Euthanasia has become so common in Quebec that its end-of-life commissioner fears suicide is no longer seen as a “last resort.”

A transsexual Canadian requested assisted suicide in order to end long-term suffering and pain from surgery to manufacture a “neo-vagina”.

The cases included five people younger than 30 who cited autism as either the only reason or a major contributing factor for euthanasia.

Canada looks set to face another record-shattering year of euthanasia deaths in 2023 after a reported 35 percent rise to some 13,500 state-sponsored suicides in 2022, an analysis of official data shows.

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.

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.

Yusuke Narita, a 37-year-old economics professor at Yale, says the solution for Japan’s population problem is “mass suicide and mass ‘seppuku” of the elderly.

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.

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.

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.

The Canadian healthcare system is experiencing an acute shortage of basic painkillers, particularly acetaminophen and ibuprofen, which are commonly used to relieve pain and fever in children during flu season.

A document for doctors in Canada has suggested that they bring up the topic of euthanasia before their patients do.

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.

A Japanese filmmaker is shaking Cannes film audiences to the core with a dystopian vision of her country in which old people agree to be euthanized to solve the challenge of a rapidly aging population. “Plan 75” by Japanese director

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 resident of southwestern China’s Chengdu city claimed on social media this month local health workers killed her pet cats after she was forced to enter a state-run coronavirus quarantine facility, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported Friday.

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. 

Local government authorities in the Chinese city of Harbin euthanized three pet cats on Tuesday against their owner’s wishes after both she and the cats tested positive for coronavirus, China’s state-run Global Times reported Wednesday.

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.”

Pope Francis has denounced the modern “throwaway culture” that discards unwanted human beings through abortion and euthanasia.

Over 750,000 Italians have signed a petition for a public referendum on legalizing euthanasia, guaranteeing its presence in the next national elections, local media reported this week.

The New York Times politicized the call from faithful American Catholics who urged their bishops to defend the profound teaching that Jesus is actually present in the Eucharist, and that self-professed Catholic public officials who support “grave moral evils,” such as abortion and euthanasia, not receive communion.