June 29, 2025
Exit Member Author Maurice Gee Calls Law Cruel & Intrusive
Exit Member Author Maurice Gee Calls Law Cruel & Intrusivereports Virginia Fallon in The Press. Acclaimed author Maurice Gee’s death has put assisted dying back in the spotlight – with some Kiwis pushing for change, and others fearing undue pressure on the elderly and disabled. In the end, Maurice Gee was right where he wanted […]
June 24, 2025
Inside Germany’s approach to assisted dying
Fast-track suicide if you pay extra, discount deals for couples. Inside Germany’s approach to assisted dying where business is booming for the pedlars of euthanasia reports the Daily Mail UK Last week, the UK’s highest elected officials ruled on the most existential of questions: how we choose to die. At its third reading, the Assisted […]
June 21, 2025
Could the House of Lords block the assisted suicide bill?
By Dan Hitchens in The Spectator Could the House of Lords block the assisted suicide bill, which was approved by the Commons yesterday? It would be pretty unusual for the Lords to do so. But then nothing about the bill has been usual. Proponents like to compare Kim Leadbeater’s bill to the big private member’s […]
June 20, 2025
MPs vote to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales
MPs vote to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales reports the BBC. Even if passed by the House of Lords, the Terminally Ill Adults (End of life) Bill will not become law for at least another 4 years … The bill will now face many more months [and years] of debate and scrutiny by […]
June 17, 2025
Solothurn Municipality of Nunningen shuts down Pegasos Swiss Association
Solothurn Municipality of Nunningen shuts down Pegasos Swiss Association according to Swiss newspaper, Blick. The [president of] Pegasos association [Ruedi Habegger], which specialises in assisted suicide, has never received permission to build for its activities in Nunningen. This is the conclusion reached by the public works department of the canton of Solothurn. For the past […]
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 14, 2025
Euthanasia for People with Advanced Dementia?
The issue of someone who has advanced dementia getting help to die is a challenging question for most people. At the current time, this is exactly what my, or rather my wife Fiona’s, family is going through. Her mother Pam is in the advanced phase of this terrible disease with no cure. She is in […]
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 […]
