Mentally competent, terminally ill patients have a right to refuse medical treatment in New York State — but doctors do not have the right to help them die, the Appellate Division in Manhattan ruled. Read more >>
Continue reading UNITED STATES (NEW YORK): Court ruling doesn’t allow doctor-assisted suicides in N.Y.A bill in New Mexico would expand legal parameters and allow nurse practitioners and physician’s assistants to assist in killing. Read more >>
Continue reading UNITED STATES (NEW MEXICO): NM Assisted Suicide Bill Moves Toward Death on Demand:A Netherlands Regional euthanasia Review Committee has decided that a forced euthanasia done on a woman with dementia, where the doctor sedated the woman by secretly putting the drugs in her coffee, was done in “good faith.” Read more >>
Continue reading NETHERLANDS: Netherlands review committee says euthanasia on woman with dementia was done in “good faith”:A majority of people killed by euthanasia in the Netherlands for so-called psychiatric reasons had complained of loneliness, a new study has found. Read more >>
Continue reading NETHERLANDS: Most euthanasia deaths linked to loneliness, says Dutch study:A Dutch doctor who ordered an elderly dementia patient’s family to hold her down as she was given a lethal euthanasia injection has been cleared of any wrongdoing. Read more >>
Continue reading NETHERLANDS: Doctor who asked dementia patient’s family to hold her down while she gave lethal injection cleared: