Euthanasia

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Where is the worst place in the world to be a doctor?

Michael Cook | 20 September 2011 |

tags: conscientious objection, euthanasia, Netherlands

At least in Niger and Afghanistan, doctors are supposed to save lives, not take them. Not so in the Netherlands.

Too much information?

Margaret Somerville | 23 August 2011 |

tags: censorship, euthanasia, patients' rights

The PR department of a hospital thought so, but patients are entitled to consider all sides of an issue such as euthanasia.

Birthday blue

Michael Cook | 05 July 2011 |

tags: assisted suicide, Australia, euthanasia, human dignity, utilitarianism

Are supporters of legalised euthanasia willing to listen to reason? Maybe not.

Belgian surgeons welcome euthanasia organs

Michael Cook | 18 June 2011 |

tags: Belgium, euthanasia, organ transplants

For some patients, donating vital organs is said to make their lives meaningful.

Is there a “duty to die”?

David van Gend | 27 March 2011 |

tags: Australia, euthanasia

Should "unproductive burdens" on society do the right thing by the rest of us and make an early exit?

Three ways of dying

Michael Cook | 08 March 2011 |

tags: Africa, euthanasia, India, US

How three women from three countries are dealing with mortality on International Women's Day.

Even euthanasia has its funny side

Michael Cook | 03 March 2011 |

tags: assisted suicide, euthanasia, Philip Nitschke

The world's most famous euthanasia activist is thinking about moving into stand-up comedy.

Hawaii Four-0

Michael Cook | 09 February 2011 |

tags: assisted suicide, euthanasia, Hawaii

This week a committee of the Hawaii Senate voted to shelve a bill for physician-assisted suicide after listening to emotional public testimony. Here are some of the stories.

Chevalier in the fight for human dignity

Michael Cook | 02 November 2010 |

tags: euthanasia, France, human dignity, locked-in syndrome

France has just given its highest dignity to a courageous woman who battled locked-in syndrome and quadriplegia to fight for the disabled. 

Suicide is not an option, ever

Cristina Alarcon | 21 October 2010 |

tags: Canada, euthanasia, freedom, suicide

Those who believe that legal assisted suicide and euthanasia will assure their "choice" are naive.

A slippery slope to forced euthanasia?

Bill Muehlenberg | 05 October 2010 |

tags: ageing population, euthanasia, over-population

Pressure for legalising euthanasia has been stepped up in Australia by the pro-euthanasia Greens.

Solidarity in suffering

Monique David | 16 September 2010 |

tags: euthanasia, palliative care, right to die

The euthanasia pot is being stirred again in Canada. A personal testimony shows how wrong this move would be.

Is pain relief a human right?

Margaret Somerville | 07 September 2010 |

tags: euthanasia, pain

It is an outrage that patients in developing countries often cannot get relief for extreme pain. 

We need a society which cares, not kills

Erik Leipoldt | 14 July 2010 |

tags: disability, ethics of care, euthanasia

A quadriplegic who has just published a book on attitudes to euthanasia in the Netherlands and Australia asks whether it should be legalised in a caring society. 

The unstoppable expansion of justifications of euthanasia

Margaret Somerville | 24 March 2010 |

tags: assisted suicide, euthanasia

Will euthanasia and assisted suicide need any moral justification at all if they are ever legalised?

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