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 […]
June 7, 2025
Athanasios Association – Exit’s Preferred Swiss Partner
Exit recommends the Swiss assisted dying/ suicide organisation – Athanasios Association – for Members. AthanasiosAssociation is based in Basel and staffed by an international team who speak all languages. After visiting and meeting with the team in May, a detailed review of this group has been included in Going to Switzerland: how to plan your […]
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 […]
