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Intentional life-ending practices described as euthanasia or medical assistance in dying.
Queensland recorded 1,082 assisted suicide and euthanasia deaths in 2025–26, as the review board called for consultation on potentially widening eligibility criteria.
Read →I still marvel at people who think — even after decades of experience with these laws — that legalizing assisted suicide or euthanasia will remain limited to the few for whom nothing else can be done medically to prevent suffering. Not only is it not true, but it is never intended by euthanasia enthusiasts to be so constrained.
Read →"I'm not sure that I would have again voted for that law with the extension that we have seen in the recent years." Philippe Couillard, the former Quebec Premier, who legalized euthanasia. Alex Schadenberg Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Philippe Couillard Philippe Couillard, who was the Premier of Quebec in 2014, when euthanasia was first legalized, told CBC news on October 10 that he is not sure if he would support that law today.
Read →Almost 25% of Belgians who undergo euthanasia are not terminally ill, according to data reported by the National Review on October 12, 2026.
Read →Hundreds of people were killed by euthanasia in Belgium last year for common ailments in the elderly, and one euthanasia case was a teenager.
Read →Gordon Friesen President: Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Gordon Friesen In the past weeks there has been much discussion of a particular Ontario case involving an elderly patient who deliberately chose a Palliative Care facility where medical homicide was allegedly not practiced, but where she was nevertheless subjected to several very aggressive proposals for euthanasia; where, under worsening circumstances she was actually told that no other relief was possible; where faced with outrage, from her supporting entourage, it was finally admitted that palliative sedation did, in fact, remain an
Read →The proportion of deaths in Belgium caused by euthanasia has more than doubled over a five-year period, reaching 4% of all deaths in 2025, according to a report from the Federal Commission for the Control and Evaluation of Euthanasia released earlier this month. According to a report released every two years as required under Belgian […] The post Belgium Euthanasia Doubles in Four Years as More Patients Killed appeared first on LifeNews.com .
Read →The proportion of deaths in Belgium caused by euthanasia has more than doubled over a five-year period, reaching 4% of all deaths in 2025, according to a report from the Federal Commission for the Control and Evaluation of Euthanasia released earlier this month. According to a report released every two years as required under Belgian […]
Read →Subhead:Ottawa will keep the exclusion for mental illness as the sole basis for assisted death indefinitely, but concerns over advance requests and protections for vulnerable Canadians remain.#
Read →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 →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 →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 →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 →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.
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