A disputed case of euthanasia in Belgium, involving the death of a dementia patient who never formally asked to die, has again raised concerns about weak oversight in a country with some of the world's most liberal euthanasia laws. The case is described in a letter...
An Ontario man suffering from an incurable neurological disease has provided CTV News with audio recordings that he says are proof that hospital staff offered him medically assisted death, despite his repeated requests to live at home. Roger Foley, 42, who earlier this year launched a...
Deliberately taking a small child's life is unlawful everywhere in the world, even when the child is terminally ill and asks a doctor to end his or her suffering once and for all. There is an exception to this rule: Belgium. In 2014, that country amended...
Did you know that pain and suffering never makes the top 5 reasons why patients in Oregon request assisted suicide? Oregon Health Authority's annual reports reveal that pain or the fear of pain is listed second to last (25%) among the reasons cited by all patients seeking...
A man says his heart doctor in Texarkana sent him home, without any options to save his life. "Those people were going to let me die, and they knew it. They knew I wasn't going to make it," says Dale Fulmer, Congestive Heart Failure Patient. Dale Fulmer, 76,...
Lying down on her bed, clutching her beloved toy dinosaur, Aurelia Brouwers smiled before she passed away from euthanasia. Aged just 29, the young woman was allowed to die at home in the Netherlands, surrounded by pals - despite not being terminally ill. After battling mental illnesses...
Assisted suicide is still suicide and July is National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month. Leaders of minority communities know firsthand the difficulties residents with income challenges face in obtaining adequate health care access. With legalized assisted suicide, this unequal access turns into a matter of life or...
Terminal prognosis are often wrong. Individuals outlive their diagnoses by months and even years. Assisted suicide legislation leads people to give up on treatment and lose good years of their lives. Jeannette Hall is an Oregon resident who was diagnosed with cancer in 2000 and told...
BELGIUM’S controversial euthanasia laws have seen three CHILDREN take their lives in recent years, new figures reveal. The tragic kids - all of whom are believed to have been terminally ill - are among thousands of people to have killed themselves since Belgium legalised euthanasia in...
There was a time — several months after J.J. Hanson was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, but several years before he died from it — when, he once said, he might have considered ending it all. The husband and father said in 2015 that the previous year,...