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June 14, 2025
How often can you perform euthanasia and still remain ethical?
Interview with Bert Keizer – one of the Netherland’s most outspoken & experienced euthanasia doctors. There is considerable consensus about quantity in medicine. If you go to hospital for an operation, you want to know that the doctor who is going to perform it is competent. Nobody wants to be operated on by a doctor […]
June 8, 2025
Was the late Sarco euthanasia assistant Willet wrongfully held in custody in Schaffhausen?
Was the late Sarco euthanasia assistant Willet wrongfully held in custody for too long in Schaffhausen? Euthanasia assistant Florian Willet helped a woman take her own life using a suicide capsule, came under the scrutiny of the Schaffhausen criminal justice system – and then chose to take his own life. Now, documents are raising new […]
June 6, 2025
Euthanasia Advocate Dies in Germany
Dr. Florian Willet had been under investigation in Switzerland after being present when an American woman died using a so-called suicide pod. Florian Willet, a euthanasia advocate who was detained by Swiss authorities last year after being present when an American woman ended her life using a chamber-like device, has died. Mr. Willet’s death was […]
May 31, 2025
The kill switch for dementia sufferers
Inventor behind the suicide Sarco pod reveals plans for implant that will automatically kill patients when their condition worsens by ELENA SALVONI The inventor of the Sarco suicide pod is building a ‘kill switch’ implant which could allow dementia sufferers to seal the time of their death years in advance. Dr Philip Nitschke, whose controversial […]
May 11, 2025
Life or death decisions as politicians weigh up assisted dying vote
Life or death decisions as politicians weigh up assisted dying vote by Glenn Campbell, BBC Scotland political editor Liam McArthur launched his bill in March 2024 There are few decisions Holyrood can take that are bigger than a vote on assisted dying. Whether or not to allow terminally ill adults to seek medical help to […]
April 23, 2025
Wife of MND/ ALS Sufferer – Refused Bail
Court told Brisbane woman Kylie Truswell-Mobbs murdered husband just hours after palliative care meeting by Rex Martinich and Katharina Loesche A woman allegedly murdered her terminally ill partner soon after he delayed making a decision on legal assisted dying at a palliative care meeting, a judge has heard. Kylie Ellina Truswell-Mobbs, 50, was arrested at […]
April 10, 2025
Man Arrested in UK – Investigated for 29 Assisted Suicide Deaths
The law in the UK prohibits people from assisting the suicide of others, though prosecutions are incredibly rare, ITV News UK Editor Paul Brand reports A man has been arrested in the UK on suspicion of encouraging or assisting the suicide of a British person in Switzerland, with police potentially investigating dozens more deaths. Sean […]
April 6, 2025
When Compassion is called Murder by the Police?
When Compassion is called Murder … A Queensland woman Kylie Truswell-Mobbs has been charged with murder after allegedly ‘accelerating’ her dying husband’s death. Police claim the woman gave her partner a ‘double dose’ of pain medication, killing him within hours reports Demi Huang for 7News Australia. A Queensland woman has been charged with the alleged […]
March 30, 2025
Swiss clinic helps UK woman die without her family’s knowledge
Swiss clinic helps UK woman die without her family’s knowledge An assisted dying clinic in Switzerland has helped a British woman to end her life without informing her family, despite reportedly claiming to have changed its practices after a similar incident in 2023. Anne Canning, 51, from Wales, travelled to the Pegasos clinic near the […]
March 25, 2025
Euthanasia Trends Upwards in the Netherlands
Last year, a total of 9,958 euthanasia cases were registered with the review committees reports Eva Klute for de Volkskrant. This increase can be partially explained by the ageing population, but the number of euthanasia notifications also rose in relation to the total mortality rate: from 5.4 to 5.8 percent. There is no reason to […]
