By Richard Egan, researcher with the Australian Care Alliance The latest annual report on euthanasia and assisted suicide from the Netherlands shows that in 2018 the number of reported deaths by euthanasia decreased – for the first time since legalisation – to 6126 (a 7% decrease from 6585 cases in 2017). Dutch deaths by euthanasia for 2018 include…
When Belgium extended euthanasia to children in February 2014, by eliminating the age limit for lethal injection, we had hoped that no child would die in this manner. The first official child euthanasia in Belgium was reported in September 2016. The 2017 Belgian euthanasia data showed that the number of euthanasia deaths continues to increase,…
The One of Us Federation advierte sobre la deshumanización de la eutanasia. La eutanasia significa abandonar a las personas afectadas por enfermedades graves y discapacidades consideradas sin dignidad humana. Esta opción no tiene sentido, desde un punto de vista ético, médico y jurídico. Uno de nosotros, Federaton, afirma en cambio la necesidad de garantizar…
Under the current abortion bill, refusing to refer patients to doctors willing to perform abortions would «be a breach of the law». While the law allows conscientious objection and allows doctors to refuse to perform abortions, it obliges them to » make such arrangements for the transfer of care of the pregnant woman concerned as may…
Past March, 118 bishops in France signed a statement entitled, “End of life: Yes to the urgency of fraternity!” In the document, the French bishops proposed six ethical reasons for opposing the legalization of euthanasia and assisted suicide, which are at the core of the bill, and which in turn is the subject of a…
Un grupo de médicos quebequenses celebró una conferencia de prensa para explicar que la falta de fondos para los cuidados paliativos en Quebec está empujando a las personas a buscar la muerte por eutanasia. Las noticias de la CTV informaron que los médicos indicaron que desde que se legalizó MAiD, el acceso a los cuidados…
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“I am a disabled person and I don’t back the ‘right to die’ for one very important reason.” This is the title of an important new article published in The Independent on the 5th of October. The author, James Moore, suffers from severe physical disabilities, and is reliant upon drugs and medical interventions in order “to be able…
Suicide pill introduced in the Netherlands “The slippery slope is behind us” In the Netherlands more and more people die from euthanasia, which is accounting for 4.5 percent of all deaths. According to researchers, requests from people who aren’t terminally ill are increasing. “Euthanasia is now considered as a right”, says Kees van Helden of…
[:es]Países Bajos registra 6.091 decesos por este procedimiento en 2016, un 10% más que el año anterior