During the World Suicide Prevention Day, Bundesärtzkammer, the German medical association, praised the resolution for the prevention of suicide adopted by a strong majority at the Bundestag, after the German members of parliament rejected two texts intended to...
The Commission on end-of-life care has called upon doctors in Quebec practicing euthanasia, officially designated as "Medical Assistance in Dying (MAD), to follow the law more strictly. Indeed, the exponential increase in the number of euthanasia in that Canadian...
On 6th September 2023, Sudinfo revealed that a Belgian woman in her thirties suffering from terminal cancer had been smothered by two nurses using a pillow following a failed euthanasia attempt. The young 36-year-old woman was suffering from cancer and in December...
LEGAL CONTEXT IN CANADA OF MEDICAL ASSISTANCE IN DYING Medical Assistance in Dying (MAD), i.e. euthanasia, has been available in Canada since 2016 in the context of the so-called Law C-14. Initially, it was available only to those people whose death was reasonably...
For the 4th consecutive year, the "Fertility and Parenthood" exhibition will be held on the 2nd and 3rd September in Paris. This year it has been renamed using the English wording "Wish for a Baby", the exhibition was previously known as "désir d’enfant (wishing for a...
Detailed analysis of the costs of medical assistance in dying in Canada. According to a study published in 2017 prior to the vote on law C-14, budgetary cost savings had been estimated at between 35 and 137 million dollars per year. In 2016, law C-14 authorised...
Animal welfare, animal rights, such expressions are in widespread use without necessarily explaining what they mean. This lack of precision may in fact be an intentional communication strategy: to be “against animal welfare” would be out of place. At a time when...
The new deferment of the bill on growing old comfortably and the absence of any road map on old age throws doubt on the priorities of the government at a time when the sector is suffering from a cruel lack of both means and personnel. On Tuesday 18th July, on the...
The Academy of Medicine published a controversial advice on 13th July 2023 on the end of life, concluding with a conditional authorisation for assisted suicide. A member of its ethics committee denounced forcing through its acceptance and claimed the invalidity of any...
In a detailed 124-page report, the French Audit Office has published a statement on palliative care and is calling for its reinforcement. Under the title “Palliative care, a treatment service which needs reinforcement”, the report was ordered by the President of the...
What are we actually talking about ? "Synthetic embryos", "embryoids", "synthetic human embryos", "imitation embryos", "embryo models", "embryos derived from stem cells", "laboratory copy of human embryos", "blastoids" etc. these are the convoluted designations which...
Various voices are being raised against the legalisation of euthanasia and assisted suicide: politicians, health workers, as well as citizens including those facing handicap. Although far from exhaustive, these stated positions reveal the profound fractures relating...
