In the new film “Fatal Flaws” (Spring 2018) filmmaker Kevin Dunn questions the long term effects of assisted death laws on society. One of the most shocking stories came from a woman named Margreet whose mother was euthanized without request.
Continue Reading → Margreet: “She was euthanized without consent. They decided.”
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%