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October 1, 2023
Widower suicide spurs euthanasia drug worry
The Australian newspaper reports that a ‘Widower suicide spurs euthanasia drug worry’. Voluntary assisted dying advocates insist euthanasia drugs should continue to be dispensed to dying people at home despite an elderly Queensland widower taking the lethal substance meant for his terminally ill wife. In the first suspected abuse of a VAD scheme in Australia, […]
June 5, 2022
Scottish Assisted Suicide Bill is Delayed
A Scottish Assisted Suicide Bill is Delayed is the news from Orkney MSP, who pledged to bring forward assisted dying proposals this year. He has said that the bill will now be introduced at the start of next year, instead. Liam McArthur MSP has blamed an “unprecedented” response to a consultation on his plans as […]
May 19, 2022
NSW becomes the last Australian State to allow euthanasia
The Guardian, Michael McGowan and Tamsin Rose
NSW passes voluntary assisted dying laws after marathon upper house debate Dee Hilton already knows how she would like the end of her life to look. She imagines a glass of champagne with her siblings (“just a little bit for me”) and time with her children and grandchildren – the ones who are “old […]
May 7, 2022
With Artificial Intelligence Assisted Suicide is Ripe for Disruption
NeoLife reports that with With Artificial Intelligence Assisted Suicide is Ripe for Disruption. Now that she is semi-retired, Sally Curlewis, 73, from New South Wales, Australia, works in retail a couple of mornings a week and spends her afternoons taking care of her five grandchildren. She jokes that her husband of 52 years loves the […]
April 30, 2022
Dutch Mark 20 Years of Euthanasia
Dutch Mark 20 Years of Euthanasia reports Agence France Presse & Voice of America Golden butterflies adorn the walls of the Netherland’s only euthanasia expertise center, put up in remembrance of thousands of patients who have chosen to die with dignity over the past two decades. Situated in a leafy upmarket suburb of The Hague, […]
April 7, 2022
The Girl from Plainville: when texting becomes encouragement
The Girl from Plainville: when texting becomes encouragement tells the story of the suicide in 2014 of 18-year-old Conrad Roy III. The Independent writes that his phone revealed texts from 17-year-old Michelle Carter urging him to take his own life. Eight years on, the victim’s family is worried that new Hulu series ‘The Girl from […]
