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December 1, 2024
The Worst Thought-Out Legal Framework Anywhere in the World?
The terminally ill adults (end of life) bill will allow adults in England and Wales who are terminally ill to be provided with assistance to end their own life. The current law on assisted dying needs to be reformed, but this bill is not the solution. It proposes a morally questionable law that is likely […]
November 20, 2024
It seems as if Switzerland has suddenly become afraid of its pioneering role
It seems as if Switzerland has suddenly become afraid of its pioneering role worldwide,’ says Nitschke, the inventor of Sarco. For the first time, Philip Nitschke, the inventor of the suicide pill, talks about the Sarco premiere. He considers the criminal proceedings for intentional killing to be absurd. In the interview, Nitschke talks about his […]
November 20, 2024
Creator of Sarco Capsule Rejects Swiss Allegation
GENEVA (AP) — The right-to-die activist behind a new “suicide capsule” says he rejects “absurd” allegations that the U.S. woman who was said to be its first user may have actually been strangled. Philip Nitschke of advocacy group Exit International said Wednesday he wasn’t on hand for the woman’s death on Sept. 23 involving the […]
November 16, 2024
Sarco Director Still in Custody
The Sarco boss is still in custody – now his lawyer is attacking the Schaffhausen authorities The German Florian Willet is being investigated for intentional homicide in connection with the first death in the suicide capsule. Now his defense lawyer is speaking for the first time. Simon Hehli 14.11.2024, 17.24 hrs On September 23, a […]
November 10, 2024
Ban on Assisted Suicide Enshrined in West Virginia Constitution?
A tidbit of news from the US Election. Not content with assisted suicide to be illegal in the State of West Virginia, pro-lifers have gone one step further by enshrining a ban in their State’s Constitution. Go Figure … a sign of things to come with the Trump administration or not? Signed: Editor’s Note ‘WV […]
September 2, 2024
The Room Next Door Finds Joy as It Stares Down Death
For those who have been following his career from the start, the idea of Pedro Almodóvar’s growing older—and increasingly using his films to reflect on illness and death, or at least just the inevitable slowdown that comes for most of us—is a bitter pill writes Stephanie Zacharek None of us relishes thinking about our own […]
