An open letter from the World Medical Association and the New Zealand Medical Association pronouncing their opposition to physician-assisted suicide. Read more >>
Continue Reading → NEW ZEALAND: Doctors want no part in assisted suicide:
The number of official cases of euthanasia in the Netherlands rose 10% last year to 6091 and euthanasia now accounts for 4% of total deaths, according to the regional monitoring boards. Read more >>
Continue Reading → NETHERLANDS: Number of official cases of euthanasia rise 10% in the Netherlands:
Although the wish of some people who are not physically ill to die is palpable, new legislation aimed specifically at such cases would be ‘undesirable’, the KNMG, a Dutch doctors association, said in a statement. Read more >>
Several Belgian physicians argue in a recent research letter in JAMA that encouraging the practice of organ donation after euthanasia will help reduce the waitlists for organ donation. Read more >>
The Oregon Senate is currently debating Bill S.B. 893 that would expand assisted suicide to incompetent people who stated in a valid advanced directive, while competent, a wish to die by lethal drugs and the bill permits euthanasia. Read more >>