Assisted-Dying Blog

Zurich University Hospital has revealed that a ban on assisted suicide on its premises has been in place since the beginning of February. Leading Swiss hospitals have been debating whether to allow assisted suicide on their premises since Lausanne University Hospital decided in 2005 to allow assisted suicide under strict conditions from January 1, 2006. […]

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Some 2,000 French doctors and nurses issued a joint call for euthanasia to be legalized in the country, arguing that mercy killings are already widely practiced by the French medical profession, in a text to be printed Thursday. In the manifesto, to appear in the Nouvel Observateur weekly, all claim to have helped patients to […]

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EIGHT out of 10 Australians believe the terminally ill should have a right to choose a medically assisted death, according to a new poll out today. The Newspoll research, conducted in February, found 80 per cent of adults surveyed supported the terminally ill’s right to voluntary euthanasia. Just 14 per cent were opposed and 6 […]

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California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez has announced that he will back a bill to allow terminally ill people to hasten their deaths with lethal prescriptions. Similar bills have failed in the last two years, but supporters say Nuñez, a Los Angeles Democrat, could make the difference. “We are more hopeful now than ever that we […]

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A CAUTIONARY NOTE TO OUR MEMBERS AND SUPPORTERS FROM ERGO (Euthanasia Research & Guidance Organization) “The Peaceful Pill Handbook” By Dr. Philip Nitschke & Dr. Fiona Stewart To avoid any possible misunderstanding about this new book, our supporters should note that there is no such single unit as a ‘peaceful pill’ described in the book, […]

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A state House committee has voted 6-1 to hold a bill that would have legalized physician-assisted suicide in Hawaii. House Bill 675 faced overwhelmingly opposition during a hearing before the House Health Committee, chaired by Rep. Josh Green, (D-Keauhou, Honokohau). A similar bill in the Senate is also not expected to make it out of […]

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For years German right-to-die leaders and activists have lived under a cloud of uncertainty whether physicians, “guides”, friends, relatives, etc who had rendered perfectly legal passive assistance at the scene , would nevertheless subsequently be subject to prosecution, if, after witnessing the patient’s suicide, they failed to immediately take emergency measures to nullify the patient’s […]

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A year after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Oregon’s physician-assisted suicide law, lawmakers in Hawaii plan to examine the issue once again. The proposal to allow competent, terminally ill adults obtain a lethal dose of medication to end their lives will be heard by the House Health Committee. Just as with past proposals, the bill […]

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The Swiss Federal Court acknowledges the right to an accompanied suicide as a human right. Also mentally ill are entitled, if they have capacity of discernment. Decision creates legal security. Uster/Wetzikon, February 1st (.-) The Swiss Federal Court has acknowledged the right of a person to determine the way and the point in time of […]

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Three American organizations which were once chapters of the Hemlock Society USA (1980-2003) have chosen to separate from their new parent organization, Compassion and Choices, and revert to their original names. The Hemlock Society of San Diego, Hemlock of Illinois and the Hemlock Society of Florida Inc., have also elected to operate in the future […]

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