Canadian paediatricians envisage euthanasia for children without parental consent or even knowledge, ahead of a report to Parliament on extension to minors
A new report from Quebec picks up a recurring theme of patients being driven towards assisted suicide and euthanasia - now 'healthcare' - by a failure to provide wanted care and treatment
Portugal follows Finland, Guernsey and California in encouraging May pushbacks against euthanasia and assisted suicide - but a new bill looms in Dublin
Between the Court of Appeal, impassioned legislative debate in Guernsey and a 104-year old travelling to Switzerland for assisted suicide, there's been much to comment on in May - and CNK's responses have been front and centre.
A 104-year old assisted suicide advocate travels from Australia to Switzerland for assisted suicide, saying 'I've lived quite a good life until recently. The last year has been less satisfactory for me because I couldn't do things.'
Quebec legislated for euthanasia months before the Supreme Court-mandated federal legislation came into being. After just two years, comparisons are being made with the Belgian experience.
Should 'an individual's right to avoid that final human tribulation... be given priority in law over the inherent risk involved in state-sanctioned euthanasia to the lives of our most vulnerable citizens'?
'As someone who has seen the ugliness of a slow demise, I reject the notion that dignity can be measured by the level of pain or the speed in which the individual dies'
Where supposedly strictly defined assisted suicide laws are based on six month prognoses, we are every year reminded that these are arbitrary and (sometimes startlingly) unreliable
