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International News and Developments

Events happening in a number of countries are showing that the traditional Establishment attitudes towards end-of-life issues are increasingly being challenged.

NEW ZEALAND

AUSTRALIA

  • Voluntary euthanasia bill goes before SA Parliament
  • Hardline Christians stopping euthanasia reform
    Click to read details
UNITED KINGDOM
  • Three years prison for mercy killing of wife
  • Doctors see euthanasia as an 'ethical minefield'
  • Acceptability of UK persons going to Switzerland for assisted suicide
  • British people want change in the law, Parliament won't let them have it
  • There is no moral difference between killing and letting die
  • Anglicans hit for backing baby euthanasia
  • Some sick babies must be allowed to die, says Church
    Click to read the full articles

FRANCE

NETHERLANDS

BELGIUM

GERMANY

  • First in Australia, now perhaps Germany
  • German assisted suicide bebate heats up
  • Dignitas branch provokes outcry in Germany
    • Click to read the full articles

SWITZERLAND

  • DIGNITAS attacks the Vatican in a German newspaper
  • Another Swiss death assistance group
  • Expansion plans not true says Minelli
    • Click to read the full articles

ITALY

  • Euthanasia doctor cleared by Italian medical panel
  • Church refuses to bury the man who wouldn't stay until 'sunset'
  • More support for euthanasia.
    Click to read the full articles

RUSSIA

AMERIClA

  • Liberty at last for Dr Jack Kevorkian
  • Vermont House votes down assisted suicide bill
  • Data on assisted suicide puts some fears to rest
  • Retirees' march on capitol supports right-to-die bills

CANADA

CHINA



INTERNATIONAL LAWS ON ASSISTED SUICIDE
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