Showing posts with label suicide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label suicide. Show all posts
Friday, December 5, 2025

Ludwig Amadeus Minelli (5 December 1932 – 29 November 2025), leader of Dignitas assisted suicide organization

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 The Washington Post has the story Ludwig Minelli, founder of leading assisted suicide group, ends his life at 92.  Dignitas, which Mr. Mine...
Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Resuscitation theater ("slow codes"), and Medical Aid in Dying

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 Here's an article pointing out that "slow codes" often constitute resuscitation theater, i.e. they are a way to follow bureau...
Sunday, July 27, 2025

Medical aid in dying: the continuing debate in England

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In June, the British Parliament passed a law to permit medical aid in dying, which still needs further action before going into effect.   Th...
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Informed consent and mortal sin, in the case of Medical Aid in Dying

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 Studying morally contested transactions doesn't always suggest paths by which consensus might be reached. It often suggests that confli...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

New York State senate passes medical aid in dying bill

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 Yesterday the NY State Senate took the next step in making medical aid in dying legal in NY.  Now the bill goes to the governor... The NYT ...
Monday, June 9, 2025

Medical aid in dying bill advances (controversially) in New York State

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 A bill to legalize Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) in New York state has passed the Assembly and been referred to the Senate (after which it wo...
Monday, June 2, 2025

Medical aid in dying in Canada doesn't require a terminal diagnosis--should it?

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 Repugnance to medical aid in dying is sharpest when death isn't otherwise imminent.  Canada allows patients with irremediable pain to q...
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Medical aid in dying advances in France

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 The proposed French law has some familiar and some novel features. Reuters has the story: French lawmakers approve assisted dying bill, pav...
Thursday, May 1, 2025

Palliative care involves hard conversations

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 JAMA has a viewpoint by several palliative care physicians reflecting on why they are sometimes "fired" by their patients, i.e. w...
Thursday, April 24, 2025

Hospice care and its limitations

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 I've recently posted about Medical Aid in Dying (MAID), which is quite controversial.  An alternative model of end of life care is a ho...
Friday, April 18, 2025

MAID in the Netherlands, together

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 The Guardian publishes a moving photo, and an interview with the photographer about his parents' decision to avail themselves of medica...
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Danny Kahneman's last interview, and its backstory

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 Sometimes the backstory is more revealing than the story. In yesterday's NYT, the philosophers Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Sing...
Sunday, March 16, 2025

A Canadian MAID doctor recalls her first time

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 Yesterday's post was about medical aid in dying (MAID) in Switzerland, and the decision of a courageous scientist.  Below are some exc...
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Danny Kahneman's final decision

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Danny Kahneman spent his life thinking about how humans make decisions.  His final decision was to travel to Switzerland to avail himself of...
Monday, January 27, 2025

Derek Humphry, Pivotal Figure in Right-to-Die Movement, (1930-2025)

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 Here's the NYT obit: Derek Humphry, Pivotal Figure in Right-to-Die Movement, Dies at 94 His own experience assisting his terminally ill...
Thursday, January 2, 2025

Diane Coleman, Fierce Foe of the Right-to-Die Movement, (1953-2024)

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 A courageous, long-lived disability-rights activist who made an eloquent case against medical aid in dying has died. Diane Coleman, Fierce ...
Sunday, December 15, 2024

MAID in Canada,

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  Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) in Canada is regulated more liberally than in many places, since it doesn't require the recipients to be t...
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Britain moves towards legalizing medical aid in dying

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  The Guardian has the story: MPs vote for bill to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales Terminally ill adults with less than six mon...
Sunday, November 24, 2024

A medically aided death in New Jersey: Pat Koch Thaler

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 Following a full life, a peaceful end. Pat Koch Thaler, Sister to a Famed Mayor, Chose to Die on a Saturday Ms. Thaler, a former dean at N....
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...