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A British stroke victim paralyzed from the neck down and suffering from so-called locked-in syndrome won the right on Monday to seek changes in a law that would enable a doctor to end what he has called “intolerable life” without … Continuer la lecture →

In the Netherlands, a country where euthanasia is legal since 2002 and since last week where there is a clinic that provides care at home, opens a new, controversial, in front of the battle for the ‘sweet death’: the assisted … Continuer la lecture →

« The elderly are asking for the right to assisted suicide, » says Dutch daily De Volksrant, as the parliament this Thursday discusses a bill presented through a citizens’ initiative by an association called Uit Vrije Wil (“Their Free Will’”). The association … Continuer la lecture →

I have seen many people die. I have watched as they slowly faded away on wards and seen them die dramatically after being rushed through the doors of Accident & Emergency. When I worked with the elderly, I sat and … Continuer la lecture →

The organization behind an initiative in Massachusetts to make the state the next to legalize assisted suicide has collected the required signatures to place their initiative petition on the ballot next November. In December, Dignity 2012 submitted 79,626 certified signatures … Continuer la lecture →

A terminally-ill Bristol woman who launched a legal battle to force doctors to end her life has died. Kelly Taylor, who had Eisenmenger’s syndrome and the spinal condition Klippel-Feil syndrome, died at Frenchay Hospital on 27 February. The 35-year-old had … Continuer la lecture →

Massachusetts voters may vote on Nov. 6, 2012 to become the fourth state to legalize physician-assisted suicide, along with Washington, Oregon, and Montana. On Dec. 7, 2011, Dignity 2012, a coalition of citizens supporting the Death with Dignity Act, submitted … Continuer la lecture →

Compassion & Choices and Compassion & Choices of Oregon have been working together to tell an amazing story. But his story has been marred by a thoughtless headline writer at The Oregonian and I need your help to respond. The … Continuer la lecture →

A mobile euthanasia clinic will begin operating in the Netherlands on Thursday, to assist patients’ whose own doctors refuse to carry out the procedure. According to the AFP news agency, the the Levenseindekliniek (Life-end clinic) has prepared several teams made … Continuer la lecture →

Six specialised teams, each with a doctor, will criss-cross the Netherlands as of Thursday to carry out euthanasia on patients at home whose own doctors refused to do so, a pro-mercy killing group said. But the plan by the Right-to-die … Continuer la lecture →