October 15, 2024
The Doctor Behind ‘Suicide Pod’ Wants AI to Assist EOL
The Doctor Behind the ‘Suicide Pod’ Wants AI to Assist at the End of Life The death of an American woman inside Philip Nitschke’s latest invention reveals the next frontier in the right-to-die debate. The world’s first assisted suicide pod wraps around the human body like a space capsule, tilting gently toward the sky. The […]
October 5, 2024
UK to consider bill for assisted dying for terminally ill
LONDON, Oct 4 (Reuters) – British lawmakers will soon consider whether to give terminally ill adults a choice to end their own lives with medical assistance, after what proponents say is a shift in public opinion since a similar measure was rejected a decade ago. Kim Leadbeater, a lawmaker from Britain’s governing Labour Party who […]
October 2, 2024
Wim van Dijk Trial Begins
Written by Wim Heesterbeek & Mees van Roosmalen After his wife was admitted to a nursing home with Alzheimer’s, psychologist Wim van Dijk from Den Bosch immersed himself in the law of euthanasia. His project ended with him starting to sell hundreds of ‘kits’ of the deadly Drug X to people who wanted it, something […]
October 2, 2024
Dutch Psychiatrists rebuked
The federation of doctors KNMG has called the behaviour of 14 prominent psychiatrists who urged the public prosecution office to take action in the case of the euthanasia of a 17-year-old girl “indecent and unacceptable”. The KNMG, which also arbitrates in matters of ethics, said the psychiatrists were wrong to send a letter in which […]
October 1, 2024
‘Lisette’ by French-Australian Author Catherine Rey
The Story of the Totally Remarkable Lisette Nigot Lisette is a moving tribute to the remarkable person we know as Lisette Nigot, the woman who ‘didn’t want to turn 80’. French-born, Lisette immigrated to the US immediately after WW2 where she created a career for herself as publicist at the famed Waldorf Astoria hotel. Mingling […]
September 24, 2024
First woman dies in ‘suicide capsule’ in Switzerland
In Switzerland on Monday, a 64-year-old woman died in a specially designed ‘suicide capsule’ containing nitrogen gas. It is the first time ever that this suicide capsule, called the Sarco, was used. The capsule, an airtight cabin the size of a coffin, offers, according to its creators, a ‘quick, peaceful and reliable death’ without the […]
September 8, 2024
UK Couple sign up to die in double suicide pod in Switzerland
Former RAF engineer, 86, and his nurse wife, 80, sign up to die in each other’s arms as first British couple to use double suicide pod in Switzerland after her dementia diagnosis By Sarah Oliver and Sanchez Manning Published: 22:00 BST, 7 September 2024 | Updated: 06:55 BST, 8 September 2024 A former RAF engineer […]
September 8, 2024
Letter to Public Prosecutor on Milou’s Euthanasia – ‘Disgrace to Profession’
‘Letter to Public Prosecutor on Milou’s Euthanasia is a Disgrace to Profession’ writes Johan Legemaate, emeritus professor of health law at Amsterdam UMC and the University of Amsterdam. The euthanasia of a 17-year-old due to severe mental suffering may cause a heated debate. But the healthcare professionals who wrote to the OM, without knowledge of […]
