Recent articles hinting that Dutch psychiatrist and euthanasia pioneer Dr. Boudewijn Chabot may have become critical of euthanasia are not entirely accurate. Furthermore, the information he provides makes it impossible to suggest that euthanasia has not be extended in the Netherlands. Read more >>
Continue reading NETHERLANDS: Euthanasia pioneer provides new information concerning euthanasia in the Netherlands:Since first permitted in the 1970s, the Netherlands has always had a problem with doctors killing patients who have not asked for euthanasia. Despite that being murder under the law, nothing substantial is ever done about it. Read more >>
Continue reading NETHERLANDS: Dutch Doctors Killed 431 Without Request in 2015:An international non-governmental organization has submitted a contribution to the U.N. Human Rights Council’s review of Luxembourg’s euthanasia practices. Read more >>
Continue reading LUXEMBOURG: Luxembourg’s Euthanasia Practice is At Odds with a Respect for Human Rights:Three women died at a resort island as Queensland’s Gold Coast and, when evidence quickly emerged that they had used the same Exit suicide method, the organization’s head, Philip Nitschke claimed association. But why aren’t we celebrating their death? Read more >>
Continue reading AUSTRALIA: Triple suicide in Queensland: why aren’t we celebrating?During the month of July, some media reported confidently and eagerly that euthanasia requests had decreased during the last 6 months in Quebec. According to their analysis, this decrease would be contrary to the trend observed in other countries that legalized death on demand before us. But is that correct? Not quite, actually. Several points need to be clarified and corrected in these fast-paced statements.
First, the available data are still partial: only 20 of the 28 institutions have published their data ...
Continue reading Jumping to conclusions with partial data