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?
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 >>
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 >>
House lawmakers rejected a bill in Maine that would have allowed doctors to prescribe fatal doses of medication to terminally ill patients who want to end their own lives. Read more >>
Continue Reading → UNITED STATES (MAINE): Assisted Suicide Loses in Maine: