Please find below LDW’s submission to the public consultation on assisted dying in Jersey. Download it here.
Review of Evidence: Canada
– Assisted dying has been legal in Canada since 2016. In its first year, 1,018 people died by medical assistance … Read More
Evidence to the Canadian Parliament Special Joint Committee on MAiD
Extract of evidence to the Canadian Special Parliamentary Committee on Medical Assisted Dying Committee/Comité Aide médicale à mourir AMAD@parl.gc.ca Professor … Read More
Euthanasia in Belgium: Shortcomings of the Law and Its Application and of the Monitoring of Practice
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