Overseas news
The state Assembly approved legislation Wednesday that would allow terminally ill patients to legally end their lives after an emotional and deeply personal debate, sending the proposal to the Senate that is expected to endorse it. It was the second effort by California lawmakers this year to allow doctors to…
Paralympic world champion Tanni Grey-Thompson discusses the arguments for and against assisted dying with two doctors on this CNN video.
In his latest column, Dr. David Amies examines the case of Gill Pharaoh, a 75-year-old British former nurse who travelled to Switzerland to access assisted dying, despite being in fine health. Her case has sparked controversy in the U.K., where an assisted dying bill is set to be debated in…
LAST year Brittany Maynard, a 29-year-old Californian, was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. Rather than let the illness take its dreadful course she moved to Oregon, where a “Death with Dignity” law exempts doctors from prosecution, with some safeguards, if they prescribe life-ending drugs to terminally ill patients who ask…
Compassion & Choices’ intense campaign to authorize aid in dying in California achieved major victories recently. After months of hard work and an emotional 90-minute debate yesterday, the California Senate passed the End of Life Option Act by a vote of 23 to 14!
There is nothing about the home we visit near Arnhem, south of Amsterdam, to suggest it is anything but ordinary. It is council collection day and assorted bits of broken or outworn furniture line the pavement. A postman asks 77-year-old Toos Pietersma to take a package for an absent neighbour.…
