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Euthanasia doctors in Canada struggle with the ethics of killing vulnerable patients

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9 months ago

France is proposing to allow terminally ill patients to take lethal medication

Associated Press

PARIS — France’s government presented a bill Wednesday to allow adults with terminal cancer or other incurable illness to take lethal medication, as public demands grow for legal options for aid in dying. To benefit from the newly proposed measure, patients would need to be over 18 and be French citizens or live in France, Health Minister Catherine Vautrin said …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

Home euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide: What my sister's euthanasia exposed about this controversial topic

Slate

My sister Theda had been bedridden for seven years when she first decided she wanted to die. Psychiatric disorders manifesting as physical disease are at the very bottom of that pile.” This distinction between physical, psychological, and hybrid suffering didn’t matter much to Theda in the end. “I’m not crazy!” she told me when mental illness causing physical symptoms came …

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10 months ago

France announces law allowing assisted dying at home

The Independent

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10 months ago

France’s Macron announces legislation allowing ‘aid in dying’ under strict conditions

Associated Press

PARIS — French president Emmanuel Macron has announced new legislation to legalize “aid in dying” that will allow adults facing end-of-life illness to take lethal medication, a first in the country. In an interview published Monday by French newspapers La Croix and Liberation, Macron said the new bill will be restricted to adults suffering from an incurable illness who are …

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11 months ago

Ecuador's high court decriminalizes euthanasia, following a lawsuit by a terminally ill patient

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Ecuador’s high court on Wednesday …

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11 months ago

Ecuador’s high court decriminalizes euthanasia, following a lawsuit by a terminally ill patient

Associated Press

QUITO, Ecuador — Ecuador’s high court on Wednesday decriminalized euthanasia and ordered lawmakers and health officials to draft rules and regulations for the procedure. The decision of Ecuador’s Constitutional Court came in response to a lawsuit from a terminally ill woman diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as ALS, who had argued that she should be allowed to have …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Do You Want To Die Today? Inside Canada’s Euthanasia Program

Al Jazeera

The number of Canadians receiving euthanasia is the highest in the world as the country expands access to the procedure. In this documentary, Fault Lines examines how Canada became the most permissive place in the world for those seeking medical assistance in dying, or MAID, the country’s term for euthanasia, and whether it’s putting Canada’s vulnerable citizens at risk. In …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Vancouver hospital offered 'medical assistance in dying' to suicidal 37-year-old woman who was told it would take too long to see a psychiatrist

Daily Mail

A Vancouver woman who went to hospital seeking help for suicidal thoughts has revealed how staff suggested euthanasia — the latest sign that the Canada's assisted dying program is out of control. Some 2,515 people received Medical Assistance in Dying in BC last year, Ministry of Health figures show 'She said to me: 'The system is broken.' Duncan's daughters Christie …

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1 year, 7 months ago

The ACT's proposed voluntary assisted dying laws have yet to be introduced, but could be the most liberal in the country

ABC

Kath Dyason had been feeling unwell for several months, but says she was stunned to receive a terminal diagnosis. Since then, the Canberra grandmother has been waiting for the ACT's proposed voluntary assisted dying laws to be introduced and says if change doesn't come soon, she may contemplate suicide. "I've had a few patients raise that with me — it …

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1 year, 9 months ago

What is assisted dying? Why is France mulling a law on it?

Firstpost

Assisted suicide is when someone of sound mind and volition is helped to take their life by providing drugs that are to be self-administered. France’s national council of doctors remains opposed France is considering legalising assisted suicide. Assisted suicide in France Up to 70 per cent of French people are in favour of active help in dying, according to a …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Passive Euthanasia : Supreme Court Agrees To Modify Conditions For Living Will/Advance Medical Directive; Orders To Be Passed

Live Law

A Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court, on Tuesday, agreed that modifications are required to be made to the guidelines for Living Will/Advance Medical Directive that was issued by its judgment recognising 'passive euthanasia' in Common Cause v. Union of India And Anr. Ravikumar was considering a Miscellaneous Application filed by Indian Council for Critical Care Medicine, seeking modification of …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Column: Should our aid-in-dying laws be expanded, or are we moving too far too fast?

LA Times

To take advantage of California’s narrowly drawn assisted suicide law one must be terminally ill, with only six months to live, as certified by not one but two doctors. Film director Jean-Luc Godard brought the debate into the mainstream last week when he opted for assisted suicide in Switzerland after being diagnosed with “multiple incapacitating illnesses.” Opinion Columnist Nicholas Goldberg …

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3 years, 8 months ago

Chile legislature OKs euthanasia bill, which heads to Senate

Associated Press

SANTIAGO, Chile — Chile’s Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday approved a bill to allow euthanasia and assisted suicide for those over 18. Under the legislation, which was submitted to congress by the center-left opposition in 2014, a person seeking euthanasia would have to be diagnosed by two doctors as having a serious and incurable disease, be conscious when making the …

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4 years, 2 months ago

Euthanasia for people with dementia remains a minefield

Dutch News

Granting people with dementia the right to ask for euthanasia when they are still capable of making the decision will free doctors from the task of taking the decision for them, says Klaas Rozemond, associate professor of criminal law at Amsterdam’s VU University. Once again, a medical disciplinary board has said the actions of a doctor involved in the euthanasia …

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4 years, 4 months ago

'Right to Die': Frenchman to Livestream His Death after President Turns Down Request for Euthanasia

News 18

A Frenchman who is suffering from an incurable condition said Friday he plans to livestream his death on social media as he refuses to take food, drink or medicine after President Emmanuel Macron turned down his request for euthanasia. “Because I am not above the law, I am not able to comply with your request,” Macron said in a letter …

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4 years, 8 months ago

Dutch court approves euthanasia in advanced dementia cases

Associated Press

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The Netherlands’ highest court ruled Tuesday that doctors can carry out euthanasia in patients with advanced dementia if the patient has earlier made a written directive. Dutch euthanasia advocacy group NVVE welcomed the ruling, saying in a statement that the decision should help doctors “to feel strengthened and supported if they want to carry out euthanasia …

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4 years, 11 months ago

Specialist euthanasia clinic faces 22% increase in requests for help

Dutch News

A specialist clinic set up to help people whose doctors do not support euthanasia, or who feel unable to help in their situation, received a record 3,122 requests last year, a rise of 22%. The rise in requests has led to a shortage of healthcare professionals across the board, particularly in The Hague and Rotterdam, the clinic said, and the …

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4 years, 11 months ago

Specialist euthanasia clinic faces 22% increase in requests for help

Dutch News

A specialist clinic set up to help people whose doctors do not support euthanasia, or who feel unable to help in their situation, received a record 3,122 requests last year, a rise of 22%. The rise in requests has led to a shortage of healthcare professionals across the board, particularly in The Hague and Rotterdam, the clinic said, and the …

Help Clinic 22 Requests

4 years, 11 months ago

Record number of euthanasia requests at expertise center

NL Times

The Euthanasia Expertise Center received a record number of 3,122 requests for help last year, an increase of 22 percent compared to 2018. It is especially complex requests for euthanasia - due to dementia, old age and psychiatric issues - that end up at the Expertise Center, which was created as a safety nets for patients whose own doctors do …

Euthanasia Center Requests Expertise Center

4 years, 11 months ago

Doctors cleared in landmark euthanasia trial of women 'who wanted to end her life because of a relationship'

The Independent

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5 years, 3 months ago

Prosecutor takes dementia patient's euthanasia to Supreme Court

NL Times

The Public Prosecutor filed cassation at the Supreme Court in the case of a nursing home doctor who was recently acquitted of murder for performing euthanasia on a woman with advanced dementia. There are legal questions the Prosecutor wants answered in this case, but it does not want to put the doctor through an appeal so is therefore going directly …

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5 years, 4 months ago

Doctor acquitted of murder in euthanasia for dementia patient

NL Times

The court in The Hague acquitted a nursing home doctor of patient's murder. The now-retired doctor was careful and followed the euthanasia protocol established in Dutch law when she performed euthanasia on a woman in the advanced stages of dementia, the court said in a statement. While she was still lucid, the woman made a declaration that she did not …

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5 years, 4 months ago

End of Life clinic sees 15% rise in euthanasia requests

NL Times

The number of euthanasia requests submitted to the End of Life Clinic in The Hague this year increased by 15 percent compared to last year. According to the clinic, officially called the Euthanasia Expertise Center from Wednesday, the increase is due to the judiciary's harsher attitude towards euthanasia, the Volkskrant reports. "Doctors have become more anxious", director Steven Pleiter of …

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Euthanasia doctors in Canada struggle with the ethics of killing vulnerable patients

France is proposing to allow terminally ill patients to take lethal medication

Home euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide: What my sister's euthanasia exposed about this controversial topic

France announces law allowing assisted dying at home

France’s Macron announces legislation allowing ‘aid in dying’ under strict conditions

Ecuador's high court decriminalizes euthanasia, following a lawsuit by a terminally ill patient

Ecuador’s high court decriminalizes euthanasia, following a lawsuit by a terminally ill patient

Do You Want To Die Today? Inside Canada’s Euthanasia Program

Vancouver hospital offered 'medical assistance in dying' to suicidal 37-year-old woman who was told it would take too long to see a psychiatrist

The ACT's proposed voluntary assisted dying laws have yet to be introduced, but could be the most liberal in the country

What is assisted dying? Why is France mulling a law on it?

Passive Euthanasia : Supreme Court Agrees To Modify Conditions For Living Will/Advance Medical Directive; Orders To Be Passed

Column: Should our aid-in-dying laws be expanded, or are we moving too far too fast?

Chile legislature OKs euthanasia bill, which heads to Senate

Euthanasia for people with dementia remains a minefield

'Right to Die': Frenchman to Livestream His Death after President Turns Down Request for Euthanasia

Dutch court approves euthanasia in advanced dementia cases

Specialist euthanasia clinic faces 22% increase in requests for help

Specialist euthanasia clinic faces 22% increase in requests for help

Record number of euthanasia requests at expertise center

Doctors cleared in landmark euthanasia trial of women 'who wanted to end her life because of a relationship'

Prosecutor takes dementia patient's euthanasia to Supreme Court

Doctor acquitted of murder in euthanasia for dementia patient

End of Life clinic sees 15% rise in euthanasia requests