Belgium : Increase in the number of euthanasia and extension of cases The Belgian federal commission for the control and evaluation of euthanasia issued its report at the end of January 2025 providing the details of euthanasia conducted during 2022-2023. This 11th...
"I am seeking care, not euthanasia!" Such is the message of the nation-wide campaign launched by Alliance VITA on 13th November 2024. At a time when the French population are becoming ever more concerned about the failings of the health system and their difficulty in...
On 2nd February 2023 the Canadian government tabled a bill to defer by one year the authorisation of euthanasia and assisted suicide for those people whose only medical problem is mental illness.
Although the 2nd August 2021 bioethics law partly authorised access to their origins for children born by Medically Assisted Reproduction (MAR) with a third-party donor, it is not until 2043 that children who so wish will systematically have access to the identity of...
The Dutch Health Minister on 14th April 2023 announced that he was preparing a regulation to authorise resorting to euthanasia for children between 1 and 12 years of age. In a letter to the Dutch Parliament, Ernst Kuipers, the Dutch Health Minister announced that he...
20 years after the adoption of the law legalising euthanasia in Belgium, two new painful cases of euthanasia for psychiatric reasons are being widely publicised in the media. Once again, they corroborate, the abuse of euthanasia in that State.
Following a presentation on discernment and psychiatric disorders, the Citizens’ Convention on the end of life continued its work during this 7th session from 3rd to 5th March.
On 30th January 2023, The Portuguese Constitutional Court again rejected a law to legalise euthanasia.
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Tugdual Derville, who is spokesman for Alliance VITA entered the debate on the end of life.
Several studies conducted in hospitals on requests for euthanasia have provided an insight into the reasons and motivations of patients.
After extending access to euthanasia for people whose natural death is not “reasonably predictable” a mere 5 years after passing the first law in 2016, Canada intends to organise its access for people suffering from mental disease as of 17th March 2023.
Meeting for its first inaugural session from the 9th to 11th December 2022, the Citizens’ Convention on the end of life began its work by welcoming highly militant personalities to present the experience from abroad.
