A new paper has been published by Belgian authors, who in the past have strongly promoted ‘assisted dying’, which reviews Belgian … Read More
Canada Continues Down a Dangerous Path: The 2020 MAiD Report
This summer, Health Canada released the second annual report on Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD). The report contains several warning-signs … Read More
Latest report reveals sharp rise in Oregon Assisted Deaths
The Oregon Health Authority has published its latest report on the incidence and characteristics of deaths as a result of legalised assisted suicide – that is, as a result of taking lethal drugs supplied by doctors under the terms of Oregon’s 1997 Death with Dignity Act (DWDA).
Oireachtas’s Committee on Justice – DWD Bill
In January 2021 Living and Dying Well submitted to the Oireachtas’s Committee on Justice its analysis of the Private Member … Read More
A grave warning from Canada.
Three leading palliative care physicians have warned legislators across the world about the dangers of MAID in a new research paper published in … Read More
A closer look at Bill C-7.
Here we offer out own critique of Canada’s proposed amendments to MAID. BACKGROUND Truchon and Gladu v. Canada (Attorney General) … Read More
Canada’s Federal Government makes plans to extend MAID.
Parliament will consider whether to extend MAID to those who are not terminally-ill and for those who will lack capacity … Read More
Washington State: Legalised Physician Assisted Suicide in 2018.
What does the latest report from Washington State tell us? Washington State has published its report on the operation of … Read More
Briefing from Oregon: House Bill 2232.
House Bill 2232 would expand the remit of Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act What does the Bill do? i) Prohibits … Read More
Physician assisted suicides in Oregon rise sharply.
A PAS law along the lines of Oregon’s ‘Death with Dignity Act’ could be expected to result in nearly 2,500 … Read More