Canada will extend access to euthanasia to the mentally ill in March. To do so, it has had to reform the Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) law passed in 2016, which was only available to terminally ill adults who applied [...]

David Albert Jones, director of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre, Oxford (England), recently published an article on euthanasia, assisted suicide and suicide rates in Europe in the Journal of Ethics in Mental Health (JEMH). After compiling a record of non-assisted suicide [...]

Last month we witnessed two sad events. On the same day, the feast of St. John the Baptist, the Spanish Parliament passed the law on euthanasia and the European Parliament adopted the “Matić Report”, which redefines abortion as “essential medical care”, recognizing it [...]

The global euthanasia agenda would be supported by the change proposed by WMA in the International Code of Medical Ethics. Is it a programed step to undermine the strong opposition of physicians to euthanasia?  On February 21 this year, we [...]

“The legalization of euthanasia and assisted suicide could be the beginning of a “slippery slope” that facilitates euthanasia practices, not only in terminal patients.” In countries where euthanasia and assisted suicide have been legalized certain — usually stringent —, conditions [...]

Assisted suicide in Germany, the federation of doctors change their medical code to allow it. Stealth steps to legalize assisted suicide: Last year, the German high court ruled that a law banning assisted suicide services was unconstitutional. German lawmakers presented two [...]

 News recently published has reported the existence of a protocol for sedation and harvesting organs for donation in patients diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) -a neurological disease that mainly involves neurons responsible for controlling voluntary muscle movement –  in [...]

“Palliative care professionals 7% in favor and 70% against” We have published 6 months ago an article reporting that the Royal College of General Physicians is opposed to changing the law. Now a survey by the British Medical Association, published [...]

Last March, the Bioethics Observatory at the Catholic University of Valencia drew up a document entitled, “Euthanasia comes to Spain. Medical, legal and social reflection”, in which we synthetically evaluated the possible legalization of euthanasia in Spain following a bill [...]

Along with the objective, medical and ethical problems posed by euthanasia and assisted suicide, no less controversial are, those that arise in relation to language engineering [the semantic manipulation of the terminology] used around them. In our view, however, two [...]

Both euthanasia and assisted suicide are illegal under English law (read HERE) as most countries. In this respect, NHS web, says “Assisted suicide is illegal under the terms of the Suicide Act (1961) and is punishable by up to 14 [...]

Germany has joined the minority of European countries that allow euthanasia. Until now, the country had banned what it called “organized medically assisted suicide”. Last month, however, the Federal Constitutional Court ruled that the right to die includes the freedom to [...]