In 2015, 965 Swiss residents used assisted suicide services in Switzerland, according to the latest figures from the Swiss statistics office. That’s up from 742 the year before and a remarkable rise on the year 2000 when only 86 people resorted to assisted suicide. Read more >>
Continue Reading → SWITZERLAND: Assisted suicide increasingly popular in Switzerland
The Dutch News reported that the number of reported assisted deaths increased by 10% in 2016 to 6091 reported assisted deaths, representing 4% of all deaths in the Netherlands. Read more >>
Continue Reading → NETHERLANDS: Netherlands 2016 euthanasia deaths increase by another 10%
As reported by The Guardian News, the number of euthanasia deaths will exceed 7000 in 2017 representing, at least, a 67% increase in deaths since 2012. Read more >>
Continue Reading → NETHERLANDS: Euthanasia deaths in the Netherlands increasing quickly
The number of people euthanised in the Netherlands this year is set to exceed 7,000 – a 67% rise from five years ago – in what has been described by the director of the country’s only specialist clinic as the end of “a taboo” on killing patients who want to die. Read more >>
Continue Reading → NETHERLANDS: ‘Any taboo has gone’: Netherlands sees rise in demand for euthanasia
An oncologist in Belgium delivered to a woman his final solution for depression over a lost relationship with a partner and distant relationships with her children: death. Read more >>
Continue Reading → BELGIUM: Doctor’s final fix for mother’s depression: Death