June 9 will mark one year of legal assisted suicide in California. Although premature and lacking in reliable data, Compassion & Choices is already declaring the law is “working very well”, the report leaves more questions than answers. Read more >>
Continue reading UNITED STATES (CALIFORNIA): One Year of Legalized Assisted Suicide in California, Countless Unanswered Questions:Switzerland's highest court reinforced a ban prohibiting assisted suicide organisation Dignitas from spreading clients’ ashes outside of cemeteries in canton Zurich. Read more >>
Continue reading SWITZERLAND: Ban on human ash disposal reinforced:Research has demonstrated that 32% of assisted deaths in the Flanders region of Belgium were done without explicit request and that they share a strong co-relation with those over 80. Read more >>
Continue reading BELGIUM: 32% of People Killed in Assisted Suicides Were Actually Euthanized Against Their Will:The bizarre and disturbing case of Michelle Carter, rumbling on for over two years, hit the headlines again recently as she was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for her involvement in the suicide of her 18-year-old boyfriend, Conrad Roy. The Carter case raises this question: is it legal to assist a suicide?
Continue reading Michelle Carter: The unacceptable face of assisted suicideOnce upon a time, you were supposed to try to talk someone out of suicide. Now, once you define suicide as, not a tragedy to be prevented, but a relief to be provided, then all of the careful limitations its advocates assured us would be placed around it were sure to fall away.
Continue reading Andrew Coyne: Michelle Carter case is the next step in the increasing normalization of suicide