Several months since voters approved the law giving terminally ill patients in Colorado the legal right to end their lives with medication, a group that backed the law, Compassion and Choices, has launched an online tool to help people identify health systems around the state that allow doctors to prescribe the needed drugs. Read more >>
An open letter from the World Medical Association and the New Zealand Medical Association pronouncing their opposition to physician-assisted suicide. Read more >>
Continue Reading → NEW ZEALAND: Doctors want no part in assisted suicide:
The number of official cases of euthanasia in the Netherlands rose 10% last year to 6091 and euthanasia now accounts for 4% of total deaths, according to the regional monitoring boards. Read more >>
Continue Reading → NETHERLANDS: Number of official cases of euthanasia rise 10% in the Netherlands:
Although the wish of some people who are not physically ill to die is palpable, new legislation aimed specifically at such cases would be ‘undesirable’, the KNMG, a Dutch doctors association, said in a statement. Read more >>
Several Belgian physicians argue in a recent research letter in JAMA that encouraging the practice of organ donation after euthanasia will help reduce the waitlists for organ donation. Read more >>