For the second time this year, Portugal’s president has refused to sign a bill allowing euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. Doing this, he effectively shelved the
Last Saturday, a doctor from a Ghent hospital was arrested after he committed euthanasia on an elderly patient. On Monday, he was released under strict
Earlier this month we heard that the scheduled euthanasia for Martha Sepúlveda was blocked by the Colombian Pain Institute (IPS). With the help of Right
The chairman of a Dutch organization that lobbies for people’s right to end their own lives and provides information to its members has been detained
On Friday August 27, the Californian ALS patient Sandy Morris, joined by other patients and physicians, filed a lawsuit in federal court. The plaintiffs are
On Thursday the 22th of July, Colombian judges decided that Colombians who ask for euthanasia are no longer required to be a victim of a
On Tuesday July the 20th, a 28-year-old man in the Netherlands was arrested for trafficking suicide powder. According to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, at least
On Friday June 25, Yolanda Chaparro, diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, died at the age of 71. After more than a year of fighting the
On May 12, the police issued arrest warrants for the same two doctors, who were charged last August on suspicion of killing a woman with
At May 11, a new euthanasia trial against doctor Joris Van Hove has started before the criminal court in Dendermonde. The Dendermond court has to
