Citing feeling “devoured by my psychiatric disorders” and “completely broken”, a 29 year-old woman without any terminal illness has been approved for euthanasia for psychiatric reasons in the Netherlands. Read more >>
A spinal injury at 17 didn’t stop Claire Freeman achieving her dreams of completing a design degree Masters and now PhD in the Powerchair.
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Article by Aubert Martin on the alarming lack of safeguards and oversight on assisted suicide in Quebec.
Continue Reading → Two years of euthanasia in Quebec: the facts
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The year 2018 is off to a very bad start for supporters of euthanasia ...
A medical ethicist has resigned from a Dutch regional assessment committee for euthanasia over a law which allows non-consenting demented patients to be euthanised. For ten years Berna van Baarsen helped to assess whether euthanasia had been performed in accordance with the law in the North Holland region.
Continue Reading → Dissent in Dutch euthanasia bureaucracy: