In a unanimous decision by the New York Court of Appeals in Meyers v. Schneiderman, the court found that aid-in-dying is assisted suicide and that there is no right to assisted suicide in New York. Read more >>
An engineer who was left paralysed and disfigured after an acid attack allegedly carried out by his jealous ex-girlfriend died in a euthanasia clinic 15 months later having decided he could not face a life of pain. Read more >>
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