‘A new study in the journal JAMA Psychiatry has presented an alarming picture of physician evaluation of euthanasia requests in the Netherlands. The article found that 56% of patients reported having refused at least one kind of treatment, and of those, almost half refused because of ‘lack of motivation’.
Continue Reading → Dutch psychiatric patients may get euthanasia too easily, says US study
Interviewed in this article, Aubert Martin states that each request for "medical aid in dying" is a social failure.
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JAN 2016 On January 15, 2016, the Supreme Court of Canada gave the Government of Canada an extension of only four months (until June 2016) to formulate and adopt a law in keeping with the Carter decision, which allows assisted suicide in Canada. The Court also agreed to exempt Québec from the extension so that its euthanasia law can remain in effect. If the federal government does not legislate on the issue within this time, Canada's assisted suicide law will be null ... Continue Reading → An extension for the Federal government and an exemption for Québec
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JAN 2016 In an article originally posted in French in the Huffington Post, Aubert Martin compares "medical aid in dying" to the bloodletting prescribed in the Middle Ages. Continue Reading → The return of Bloodletting: Welcome 2016
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