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Umbrella filter covering euthanasia and assisted-suicide topics; not a claim that their legal definitions are identical.
About 25% of all assisted deaths in Belgium were committed on people who were not terminally ill. Overall, euthanasia has increased 1,809% since 2003.
Read →THE WASHINGTON STAND—American culture works too hard to hide the effects of death. Trained professionals conceal dead bodies in large bags.
Read →Canada’s medical assistance in dying program has gone off the rails. Last week, two Canadian doctors sounded the alarm, telling the New York Times “too many people are receiving the procedure without the opportunity for careful reflection about it with a health provider … In some cases, patients are being approved who should not be.” ...
Read →JB Pritzker signed a law letting Illinois doctors hand dying patients a lethal prescription. Buried inside his law was a threat aimed at every Catholic doctor, nurse, and religious sister in...
Read →Some are celebrating Canada’s government “indefinitely suspending” legalizing euthanasia for mental illness as a great victory for life. Not me.
Read →Some are celebrating Canada’s government “indefinitely suspending” legalizing euthanasia for mental illness as a great victory for life. Not me.
Read →Justice Minister Sean Fraser and Health Minister Marjorie Michel stated on October 7, 2026 that the federal government will introduce legislation, that will prevent the implementation of euthanasia for mental illness as a sole criteria. However, the government legislation will also permit euthanasia by advanced request.
Read →Campaign Life Coalition warned that Canada's Liberal government is 'still bent on expanding death — it just changed its target' with plans to allow euthanasia for the mentally ill by advance request.
Read →After announcing on Wednesday that it was pumping the brakes on making the mentally ill eligible for euthanasia in Canada, …
Read →Canada has indefinitely suspended plans to legalize euthanasia for mental illness, which was scheduled to begin in 2027. However, the government has not ruled out future legislation that could permanently ban euthanasia for mental illness, and the suspension period remains undefined.
Read →An elderly woman in Canada was approved for 'medical assistance in dying,' or MAiD, simply because she could no longer cook for her family.
Read →Editorial note: The terms euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide are often used interchangeably and will be in this article. Euthanasia refers to a healthcare worker intentionally and directly administering drugs to kill a patient.
Read →Canada will prevent the expansion of its assisted suicide and euthanasia law that would have permitted individuals to end their lives solely on the basis of having a mental illness, according to Canada’s Justice Minister, Sean Fraser. While Canada legislated in March 2021 to enable assisted suicide and euthanasia for those whose sole underlying medical […]
Read →Paul Tuns: Ontario Superior Court Justice Carissima Mathen denied Claire Brosseau and Dying With Dignity an injunction to approve Brosseau to be killed by Medical Assistance in Dying based on mental illness as the sole criteria. Brosseau, a 49-year-old Toronto woman, is an actress and comedian, who filed a motion in May seeking a constitutional [...] The post Ontario court denies application for MAID for mental illness appeared first on The Interim .
Read →A federal court has stopped Illinois from penalizing Catholic hospitals and religious health workers who refuse to take part in the state’s assisted-suicide law, including a requirement that they tell terminally ill patients how to obtain lethal medication. U.S.
Read →Canada euthanized 16,499 people in 2024, one of every 20 deaths in the country. On October 7, 2026, Ottawa shelved plans to euthanize people whose only illness is mental.
Read →At a press conference on Wednesday, Canadian Justice Minister and Attorney General Sean Fraser announced that the Liberal government has concluded euthanasia for those with mental illness as a sole underlying condition cannot and will not be legalized. Then, he and his colleagues headed into the House of Commons and – with two solitary exceptions [...] The post Carney’s Liberals play games with the lives of the mentally ill first appeared on The Bridgehead .
Read →Advance requests allowing doctors to administer euthanasia without the person's final expressed consent could be the next MAID battleground
Read →After a decade of widening access to assisted dying, Canada announced it will not extend medical assistance in dying (MAID) to people whose only condition […] The post Canada halts euthanasia for mental illness but opens another door appeared first on Family First NZ .
Read →Illinois Catholic hospitals and religious healthcare workers can’t be penalized for refusing to inform terminally ill patients of assisted suicide options, a new court order ruled. The Medical Aid in Dying bill, signed into law on Dec.
Read →Until Canada’s mental-health care systems up their game, medically assisted death for mental illness alone is out of the question
Read →Despite Canada's Liberal government announcing a permanent ban on euthanasia solely for mental illness, it will expand euthanasia to include those who have signed advanced directives,
Read →Justice Minister Sean Fraser and Health Minister Marjorie Michel stated on October 7, 2026 that the federal government will introduce legislation, that will prevent the implementation of euthanasia for mental illness as a sole criteria. However, the government legislation will also permit euthanasia by advanced request.
Read →Multiple religious objectors are suing the state over its newly instituted assisted suicide regime.
Read →New South Wales healthcare workers who object to abortion and voluntary assisted dying face growing pressure, raising serious questions about conscience rights, employment and moral injury.
Read →To understand just how slipshod Canada's euthansia program has gotten, two Canadian psychiatrists, Gary Rodin and Madeline Li, recently exposed some doozy cases.
Read →Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) program has been a masterclass in the slippery slope. Originally pushed as a measure that would provide terminally ill patients a "death with dignity," it has become a wholesale euthanasia machine that kills more people in Canada than die by gun violence in the United States and outpaces the euthanasia of dogs in the nation.
Read →Tamara Jansen (MP) The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition is thankful to Tamara Jansen (MP) for sponsoring Bill C-218 and carrying this clear and important bill through parliament. Jansen's leadership was impressive.
Read →Alex Schadenberg Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Justice Minister Sean Fraser and Health Minister Marjorie Michel stated on October 7, 2026 that the federal government will introduce legislation, that will prevent the implementation of euthanasia for mental illness as a sole criteria. However, the government legislation will also permit euthanasia by advanced request.
Read →Euthanasia for individuals incapable of consent at the point of death is to be introduced under new proposals from the Canadian Government, according to Canada’s justice minister, Sean Fraser. The proposed legislation would change the law so that individuals who have a progressing incurable illness can give their consent to have their lives ended by […]
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