Professor Ilora Finlay responds to the push to legalize assisted suicide, following the defeat of a bill in British parliament intended to legalize euthanasia, by examining the experience of other regions where euthanasia is legal. Read more >>
Continue Reading → Assisted Dying: What can we learn from places where it is legal
A study was published in the NEJM on March 19, 2015 on the experience with euthanasia in the Flanders region of Belgium examined 3751 deaths in the first six months of 2013 in the Flanders region of Belgium and concluded that 1.7% of all deaths were hastened without request (representing more than 1000 deaths yearly), euthanasia represents 4.6% of all deaths although the official Belgian reports indicate that euthanasia represents 2.4% of all deaths, meaning that almost half of all ...
Continue Reading → Recent Trends in Euthanasia and Other End-of-Life Practices in Belgium
A Belgian activist warns of the slippery slope as euthanasia becomes ‘normal’.
Continue Reading → Suicide with the approval of society
The more a population accepts killing as an acceptable response to human suffering, the broader the categories for which euthanasia becomes acceptable – and the more people are killed.
Continue Reading → 2000 Belgian Euthanasia Killings in 2015
Young woman euthanized because of a broken relationship.
Continue Reading → Controversial case re-opens euthanasia debate in Belgium