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 [...]
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled against Belgium for failing to conduct a proper investigation into the circumstances of Godelieva de Troyer’s euthanasia. She was a 64-year-old woman who died by euthanasia in 2012 after being diagnosed with [...]
A 46-year-old Italian man with quadriplegia has become the second case of euthanasia authorized in Italy, where neither euthanasia nor assisted suicide are legal, having spent the last 18 years confined to bed. It was the patient himself who chose [...]
In the Netherlands, Health Minister Ernst Kuipers wants to approve the administration of euthanasia to children aged between 1 and 12 who suffer from a terminal illness, through a legal reform. He has announced that he intends to extend the [...]
At the beginning of April, a news article was published Spanish newspaper El Diario under the following headline: “It’s not ending someone’s life, it’s ending their suffering”. The news report relates the experience of one of the first doctors to [...]
The miracle of life. The wonder of human life Two small cells, the male and female gametes, which will not live for more than 120 or 24 hours respectively, are the protagonists of an impressive biological event: their complementary fusion [...]
Since 2002, when euthanasia was approved in Belgium, 24,000 people have died using this method, which represents 2% of those who die each year. In that country, certain requirements must be met for a person to request euthanasia: The law [...]
A patient obtains authorization to receive assisted suicide in Italy and opens the door to the legalization of euthanasia and assisted suicide in that country. Once again, we find ourselves with a similar case to the one experienced in Spain [...]
The Spanish euthanasia law discriminates health care providers who request the right of conscientious objection. The recent pressures exerted on the health community, seeking to limit the free exercise of their profession when they oppose putting into practice laws that [...]
The recent pressures exerted on the health community, seeking to limit the free exercise of their profession when they oppose putting into practice laws that threaten the life or health of people, compels us to raise the dilemma of the [...]
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 [...]
