A 28-year-old Dutch woman has scheduled her death by euthanasia because she’s depressed. Zoraya ter Beek is in love with her boyfriend, lives in a nice house, cherishes her two cats, and had dreams of being a psychiatrist. Delayed by depression, autism, and borderline...
Proponents of physician assisted suicide are increasing their efforts to expand and legalize this practice in our country. Currently 10 states and the District of Columbia have legalized some form of physician assisted suicide. Sadly, hundreds of people have died by...
In April of 2023 a group of nonprofits that work for disability and patients' rights as well as individuals with disabilities filed a lawsuit in a federal district court, asking the court to declare California’s physician assisted suicide law unlawful and...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party recently voted down a bill that aimed to prevent the state from euthanizing mentally ill Canadians. The bill, introduced by Conservative lawmaker Ed Fast as private members bill C-314, sought to amend Canada's Criminal...
Since the legalization of Medical Aid in Dying (MAID), Canada has been all over the headlines. Through the MAID program over 31,000 people have died. Advocates of the legalization of MAID assured that the program would be used in rare cases, confined to terminally ill...
The odds are that, like a large segment of our population, you have never heard of Medical Aid in Dying (MAID). What exactly is it? Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) was legalized in Canada in 2016, and is the process through which a doctor or nurse practitioner assists an...
In mid-February, the Washington State Legislature introduced a bill to “increase access” to assisted suicide in a plethora of dangerous ways. Though the bill ultimately failed, the authors’ vision that Washington become an indulgent outpost for assisted suicide across...
Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia are becoming increasingly common across the globe. Just in the last year, Switzerland legalized the use of self-operated “suicide pods”, Canada removed the mental illness exclusion in their assisted suicide law, and the...