On Wednesday May 11, Colombia’s constitutional court decided that not only euthanasia but also medically assisted suicide is allowed for people suffering from incurable illnesses.
On April 12, the European Court of Human Rights decided that Denmark didn’t violate a doctor’s freedom of expression by jailing him for helping patients
A federal judge is considering whether the California End of Life Option Act needs to be extended in order to not violate the Americans With
Last month, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts heard arguments in a case that could decide whether doctors are able to prescribe lethal medicines to
On March 28, a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act reached a settlement in the U.S. District Court in Portland, Oregon. Result:
Although the ban on commercial aid in dying is two years ago overturned by the Federal Constitutional Court, this does not mean that people in
In 2019, the Swiss EXIT official Pierre Beck was found guilty of helping a woman who wanted to die. This month, the Switzerland Federal Court overturned that
Kurt Knickmeier killed three people and has been in prison for 36 years. He wants a chance at dismissal – or die. In 2020, the
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
