Assisted suicide numbers on the rise
More than one in every 100 deaths in Canada is administered by a doctor, according to the latest national statistics on euthanasia and assisted suicide.
Ontario’s assisted suicides up 78 per cent
Ontario was home to 1,499 instances of assisted suicide last year, a 77.8-per-cent increase over 2017, according to numbers released by Ontario’s Office of the Chief Coroner.
Editorial: A sound decision
As the saying goes, no news is good news.
Canada's new attorney general puts euthanasia expansion on ice
OTTAWA – Euthanasia opponents welcomed news that Canada’s new Attorney General David Lametti says the Liberal government has no plans to expand access to assisted suicide in the near future.
New hope for Ontario doctors' conscience fight
New evidence heard in court has given Ontario’s medical conscientious objectors renewed hope.
UK doctors head for vote on assisted suicide
Britain’s Royal College of Physicians has adopted a neutral position on assisted suicide until they hear back from British doctors on whether they favour changing United Kingdom laws against doctors helping their patients commit suicide.
Canadian Physicians for Life is mobilizing its members for a grassroots appeal to politicians to protect doctors who do not wish to participate in any way in the assisted suicide of patients.
HONOLULU, Hawaii – Hawaii's law legalizing assisted suicide went into effect last week, but many physicians and pharmacists are choosing not to prescribe or dispense the needed medication.
Covenant Health revises assisted suicide policy
EDMONTON – Citing the needs of fragile patients, Covenant Health has clarified how assessments are done in its facilities for patients who want to end their lives under provisions of Canada’s assisted suicide and euthanasia law.
Canada's palliative care framework earns praise from advocates
OTTAWA – Palliative care advocates are applauding a new national framework document that has adopted an international definition of palliative care that excludes euthanasia and assisted suicide as elements of patient care.
Editorial: Is this what we want?
As Parliament awaits the imminent arrival of a report on assisted suicide that may make a bad situation even worse, it’s worth noting some chilling stories from the first countries to legalize medically induced death. This could be our future.
Charles Lewis: Frustrations with euthanasia
On rare occasions I get clear signals of what needs to be done in my life. When it comes, it arrives through people I respect. Each gives me the answer I need but I did not know I needed till I heard it.
Vancouver Island tops assisted suicide rate
VANCOUVER – The rate of medically-assisted deaths on Vancouver Island is about five times higher than in the rest of the country.
EDMONTON – At what point does a health care provider become complicit in the act of medically-assisted death?