MARCH 2012
Within the first two days of operation, the Dutch mobile euthanasia clinic received 60 applications.
People with disabilities expressed concern about and opposition to the Massachusetts ballot initiative to legalize doctor-prescribed suicide.
New legislation will be introduced in New Zealand to legalize euthanasia.
Members of Parliament in the United Kingdom will vote on the controversial guidelines issued by the Director of Public Prosecutions on when cases of assisted suicide would be prosecuted.
By a 124-45 vote, the Georgia House has passed legislation to prohibit doctor-prescribed suicide.
The disability rights group Second Thoughts will testify today before the Massachusetts joint Judiciary Committee in opposition to a ballot question to legalize doctor-prescribed suicide.
A Canadian man has been accused of killing is roommate out of mercy.
A Massachusetts committee will hold a hearing on a measure to legalize doctor-prescribed suicide
A suicide kit may have played a role in the death of a California couple.
The Dutch mobile euthanasia vans being operating across The Netherlands today.
FEBRUARY 2012
A Georgia House committee has passed a bill which would make it a felony to assist someone to commit suicide.
Groningen Academic Hospital in The Netherlands says it has begun the euthanasia of newborns under guidelines adopted a few years ago.
The French socialist candidate for president is backing off of his stated position in favor of legalizing euthanasia.
Georgia legislators introduced a bill that would prohibit assisted suicide in response to the recent Georgia State Supreme Court decision that struck down Georgia’s original law.
Assisted deaths by the Swiss Dignitas group rose by 35% in 2011.
A suicide prevention bill receives overwhelming support in the Canadian House of Commons.
As the Massachusetts initiative to legalize doctor-prescribed suicide moves closer to being placed on the November, 2012, ballot, major problems with the measure are discussed.
An Australian man is sentenced to three years in jail for assisting the suicide of a friend.
A Swiss canton is moving closer to a popular vote on legalizing euthanasia.
The leader of the British General Medical Council states that assisted suicide “is illegal and doctors should have no part of it.”
The British Archbishop of Canterbury tells his General Synod that a change in the law to legalize assisted suicide “would be a disaster.”
The Dutch mobile euthanasia clinics are ready to roll.
Two U.S. bioethicists state that the organ transplant problem can be solved by simply abandoning our “norm against killing.”
A mother in India has petitioned the court to allow the mercy-killing of her son who has disabilities.
The George State Supreme Court struck down a Georgia law that prohibits doctor-prescribed suicide
JANUARY 2012
A UK court has ruled that lawyers for a man who wants to die won’t be prosecuted if they find someone to help the man commit suicide.
Parents in Qatar have requested euthanasia for their children who have disabilities.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has adopted a non-binding resolution stating that euthanasia must always be prohibited.
Dr. Peter Saunders views the new attempt to legalize assisted suicide in Scotland as dishing up the same confused euthanasia proposals again.
The new face of doctor-prescribed death in America is Lawrence Egbert, formerly the medical director of the Final Exit Network.
The number of British citizens traveling to Switzerland for assisted death rose by 14% in 2011 from 2010.
A British doctor warns that assisted death is cheaper than caring for a patient.
Proponents in Scotland have launched a new effort to legalize doctor-prescribed suicide
A British Member of Parliament has been granted permission to debate the legalization of doctor-prescribed suicide.
A British man will not be charged after taking his wife who had multiple sclerosis to Switzerland for assisted death.
The UK report recommending legalization of doctor-prescribed death has encouraged a retired doctor in Norway to ask for legalization of euthanasia in Norway.
Legislation introduced in Washington State would require that physicians who assist a person to die list assisted suicide as the cause of death on the patient’s death certificate.
Lord Falconer, the author of the controversial UK report recommending legalization of doctor-prescribed death, admits that allowing assisted death is not without risk.
The UK Bishop of Burnley calls the report recommending the legalization of doctor-prescribed death flawed.
Alex Schadenberg reports that the UK report recommending the legalization of doctor-prescribed suicide is one-sided and does not protect patients.
Dr. Peter Saunders of the British group Care Not Killing has roundly condemned the recommendation by the Commission on Assisted Dying that doctor-prescribed death be legalized in the UK.
Reports indicate that the British Commission on Assisted Dying will recommend legalizing euthanasia for a limited category of people.
British Prime Minister David Cameron is facing pressure to end the ban on doctor-prescribed suicide.
DECEMBER 2011
Hawaii Attorney General rejects a claim by pro-euthanasia Compassion and Choices that doctor-prescribed death is already legal in Hawaii.
An American woman is believed to have assisted a New Zealand woman with her suicide.
The British General Medical Council (GMC) is considering guidelines to deal with complaints against doctors who assist suicides.
Wesley Smith says that if the lawsuit in British Columbia is successful, Canada could have suicide clinics in major cities following the Swiss model.
Five major reasons are given why the doctor-prescribed ballot measure in Massachusetts is dangerous for patients.
