Overseas news
Two decades on, the Supreme Court of Canada looks set to grapple again with the difficult and charged issue of physician-assisted suicide — what some consider death with dignity and others worry will lead to killings of convenience against seniors and the disabled.Read article » …
A 44-year-old man in Belgium chose to end his life via euthanasia on Monday after a series of failed gender reassignment surgeries. “I was the girl no one wanted,” Nathan Verhelst told the Flemish newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws, mere hours before his death.Read article here » …
EDMONTON – A two-part series about assisted suicide, featured on Global Edmonton this past spring, has been honoured by the Canadian Medical Association with an Excellence in Health Reporting award. The series – produced by Edmonton’s health reporter Su-Ling Goh, photographer Morris Gamblin and editor Clarisse Porca – focused on…
Professor Stephen Hawking, who once said he thought assisted dying was “a great mistake”, has changed his stance to support the right of terminally ill people who are suffering to end their lives. Read article» …
David Lambert is an orthopedic surgeon and a member of the advisory council of physicians of Dying With Dignity Canada. He lives in Sherbrooke. He has prostate cancer that is terminal. He has a very personal take on what is needed for people in similar situations and his “Opinion” about…
Barbara Mancini, a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania nurse, is facing charges in the death of her father, 93-year-old Joseph Yourshaw. Ms. Mancini, 57, is charged with “recklessly endangering another person” and “aiding suicide,” reports the American ABC newsRead article » …
My family and I have watched the debates about active euthanasia since we moved from the Netherlands to Canada two years ago. It often strikes me that there is so little known about this highly sensitive subject, yet so many prejudices exist against it. With this personal story, I hope…
Margot Bentley, a former nurse living in BC, is in a state of advanced Alzheimer’s Disease. According to media reports, her daughter (Katherine Hammond) has requested that, consistent with Ms. Bentley’s clear prior written wishes (“no nourishment or liquids”), spoon feeding be stopped. Fraser Health Authority has refused to either…
Meg Taylor was 60, a mother and a midwife in England. She suffered badly from MS. Here’s her 7 minute video in which she explains why she stopped eating and drinking. She died on 1st March this year.
Every night I swallow a handful of pills. In the morning and during the day I swallow others, haphazardly, for I am not always in the right place at the right time, but at night there is a ritual. Read article
The widow of a leading physicist has told how her brilliant husband chose to die at a suicide clinic in Switzerland because he could not live with dementia and the thought that he was becoming an increasing burden on her. The professor of petroleum engineering, who was knighted for his…
Paul Chamberlain is articulate, impossibly cheerful in the face of adversity and heroic – a Briton of the sort you might have thought would be seen no more after Lawrence Oates strode into the Antarctic snowstorm in an effort to save Scott and his other companions. Read article » …
