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March 23, 2026
Scottish Law Fails to Pass
LONDON (AP) — Lawmakers in the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday rejected legislation that would have made Scotland the first part of the United Kingdom to allow terminally ill adults to end their lives reports Reports Jill Lawless at Associated Press. Members of the Edinburgh-based legislature voted 69 to 57 against a bill that would have […]
March 15, 2026
Scottish Bill Gets 175 Amendments
Members of the Scottish Parliament are due to vote on their Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults bill this coming Tuesday reports the BBC. MSPs have finished their revisions to the assisted dying bill with 175 amendments accepted during the past week. An unusual Friday sitting of the Scottish Parliament was held, allowing a fourth […]
February 27, 2026
Jersey approves bill to legalise assisted dying for terminally ill adults
Jersey’s parliament has given final approval to a bill to legalise assisted dying for terminally ill adults who live on the island reports Harriet Sherwood. Members of the States Assembly voted by 32 to 16 on Thursday in favour of the bill, which will now need royal assent before it becomes law. A private member’s […]
February 15, 2026
He knows how he wants to die …
With his research, Boudewijn Chabot (84) provided insight into dying on one’s own terms for the first time. A repeat study of that work was published on Friday. Now that his own end is in sight, he knows that he will stop eating and drinking. “It’s a long goodbye.” This article was written by Haro […]
February 8, 2026
BMJ Reports on UK Bill
Many lords are focused on optimising patient choice, safety, and control at the end of life, but as lords ourselves we are concerned that numerous amendments from ideological opponents risk undermining the bill entirely, write Dianne Hayter and colleagues Last summer, the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill to regulate medically assisted dying in […]
February 7, 2026
New York adopts medical aid in dying with new safeguards
Joshua Villanueva reports for The Jurist New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed the “Medical Aid in Dying Act” on Friday, making New York the latest state to authorize physician-assisted dying for certain terminally ill patients. The law represents a major policy reversal in a state where the highest court had previously emphasized that assisted suicide […]
January 28, 2026
German Prosecutors investigate after death of Florian Willet
Two members of a German euthanasia organisation are alleged to have helped Florian Willet commit suicide, even though he was mentally ill. It is therefore possible that he did not make his decision of his own free will. The Cologne public prosecutor’s office is investigating two people associated with the German Society for Humane Dying […]
January 24, 2026
Controversial Swiss Suicide Pod Gets an AI Mental Fitness Upgrade
There have been many high-profile stories in which chatbots have effectively encouraged and enabled people experiencing mental health crises to kill themselves, which has resulted in several wrongful death lawsuits against the companies responsible for the AI models behind the bots. Now we’ve got the inverse: if you want to use your right to die, […]
January 21, 2026
Sarco Pod for Couples
In September 2024, a 64-year-old woman became the first human to experience her last moments in a futuristic killing device known as the Sarco pod. Amid a verdant forest in Switzerland’s Schaffhausen region, she climbed inside the 3D-printed capsule, pressed a button, and took a deep breath before nitrogen flooded the vessel. The woman lost […]
January 10, 2026
Suspended Prison Sentences for Ultime Liberté
Suspended prison sentences for activists from the Ultime Liberté association, which supports assisted suicide, for trafficking barbiturates On Friday, the Paris Criminal Court sentenced twelve retired activists from the Ultime Liberté association, aged between 75 and 89, to suspended prison sentences of up to 10 months for helping dozens of people obtain pentobarbital between 2018 […]
