The Netherlands has recorded its first case of euthanasia performed on a child between the ages of one and twelve since expanding its legislation in 2024. The case, in which neither the child’s age nor illness has been revealed, reopens [...]

In Canada, the insistence on promoting euthanasia or “Medical Assistance in Dying” (MAiD) has reached the point of being repeatedly offered to patients who do not suffer from terminal illnesses. A representative example of this worrying trend is the case [...]

Recently, the President of Uruguay, Yamandú Orsi, signed a decree regulating Law No. 20.431, which regulates euthanasia and the right to a dignified death, recognizing the possibility for individuals to request it in accordance with the provisions of the law. [...]

What is human life? It is the capacity of people to be born, to breathe, to develop, to procreate, to evolve and to die. It is the space of time that elapses from the conception of a human being until [...]

Zoraya ter Beek, 28, living in the Netherlands, will receive euthanasia this May after requesting it for suffering from various mental health problems such as autism, borderline personality disorder and depression. This decision was made, despite not suffering from any [...]

On April 8, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith published the Declaration “Dignitas Infinita” on human dignity in which it insists that euthanasia, gender theory or abortion constitute great threats to human dignity. The new document, consisting of [...]

French President Emmanuel Macron has given an interview to the newspapers Libération and La Croix in which he commented that he is preparing a bill to legalize euthanasia that will be presented in April to the French parliament. Although Macron intends [...]

This is not the first time that we have treated in our Observatory the case of transsexual people who, after undergoing gender transition treatment, regret having done so. Unfortunately, there are more and more of them. According to the Daily [...]

In the Netherlands it has been announced that euthanasia for children under 12 suffering from incurable diseases will be possible. “This concerns children affected by a disease or condition so serious that death is inevitable. Aid-in-dying will be possible when [...]

On February 16, in response to Opinion 139 of the French National Consultative Committee on Ethics, thirteen organizations representing 800,000 French health workers published the document “Can causing death be considered care?”. In it, health workers (doctors, nurses, auxiliary nurses) [...]

In line with the news that we learned in 2022 about the death by euthanasia of the young Belgian girl Shanti DeConte, who survived the attacks at the Brussels airport but fell into depression, we make our bioethical reflection on [...]

Governments that promote euthanasia do so with the utmost commitment to preserve respect for the freedom and autonomy of their citizens and with the sole intention of providing solutions to a life of “suffering due to an incurable disease or [...]