Overseas news
The Vermont Senate voted on Valentine’s Day to pass a bill to allow mentally competent, terminally ill Vermonters the option of aid in dying. After days of debate on this important issue, the bill easily cleared the Senate 22-8. The bill now moves to the House of Representatives for consideration.Read…
Twice as many elderly people died in hospice care as in a hospital or nursing home compared with a decade ago, but hospice is often treated as a last resort — and used too late to benefit patients and their families, says a study released Tuesday.Read article » …
Although he was only recently diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, the retired chartered accountant has been ill for the past two years. Sitting in his living room, in a voice barely audible, the father-of-four – who now weighs only six stone – explained his abstinence.Read article » …
The Canadian federal government will argue in front of the B.C. Court of Appeal later this month that the ban on assisted suicide should remain in place. In Québec, the Parti Québécois government has pledged to introduce before next summer death with dignity legislation as a way to circumvent the…
In Belgium, a pair of 45-year-old twins decided to seek the aid of doctors in ending their own lives. They were born deaf, and made a living together as cobblers. Upon learning that they were both going blind as well, they wanted to end their suffering before it could truly…
The Quebec government says it believes it has found a way of not running afoul of the federal government after a legal panel recommended that a terminally ill patient has the right to die. Provincial junior health minister Veronique Hivon said Tuesday the panel determined that provinces have the legal…
