Showing posts with label suicide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label suicide. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Medical aid in dying comes up for a vote in England

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  The upcoming vote on legalizing medical aid in dying in England and Wales has attracted controversy along lines that will be familiar to r...
Friday, October 11, 2024

Medical Aid in Dying Laws in the U.S.

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  JAMA has a review of the current state of medical aid in dying in the 12 U.S. jurisdictions (if Delaware proceeds) that now allow it. Medi...
Sunday, August 25, 2024

Travel for medical aid in dying

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  CBS has the story: Why Americans are traveling to Vermont and Oregon to die ""Dying with medical assistance wasn't an option...
Thursday, June 6, 2024

Medical aid in dying debated in NY, extended in the Netherlands

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 Here are two related stories, one from the NYT about a debate on whether to allow medical aid in dying in New York State. The other is from...
Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Vatican statement on gender-affirming surgery and human dignity

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 A new statement from the Vatican has been widely covered in the press. Here's the story from the National Catholic Reporter: Vatican co...
Friday, March 1, 2024

Medical aid in dying--the ongoing debate in Britain

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 The Guardian has this opinion piece, connected to the current debate in England about medically assisted dying, and the slippery slope: I’m...
Thursday, February 15, 2024

Medical aid in dying, together, in the Netherlands

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The Guardian has the story: Duo euthanasia: former Dutch prime minister dies hand in hand with his wife. Dries and Eugenie van Agt, both 93,...
Friday, January 12, 2024

Medical aid in dying, and slippery slopes--the debate in Britain

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 The Oxford blog Practical Ethics considers medical aid in dying (MAID), and the slippery slope arguments that accompany current debates on...
Wednesday, December 27, 2023

Medical aid in dying considered in Britain, and evolving in Canada

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The Guardian has the story about England and Wales, and the NYT has a story on Canada. Here's the Guardian: Two former health secretarie...
Thursday, May 11, 2023

Telehealth restrictions and medical aid in dying/death with dignity

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 Medical aid in dying (MAID) is now available to some extent in eleven U.S. jurisdictions (10 States and the District of Columbia), mostly w...
Sunday, April 23, 2023

Medical aid in dying: access for children, and for mental illness

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Two recent articles discuss whether there should be categorical limits on medical aid in dying (MAID).  In the Netherlands, the law now perm...
Sunday, December 11, 2022

Euthanasia in Canada

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  The NYT columnist Ross Douthat considers the medical aid in dying policies in Canada, and warns us that conservative politics is what prot...