Missouri mom Gayle Hendrix, 79, to head to Europe for assisted suicide
A terminally ill Missouri mother is heading to Switzerland to end her life before her illness makes travel impossible. Gail Hendricks, a 79-year-old mother of two from Cape Girardeau, has been battling terrible complications from lupus and interstitial lung disease for the past four years. Friends say it doesn't seem like she's near the end, […]
Ex-doctor pleads guilty to helping woman’s assisted suicide at NY motel
An 85-year-old retired doctor from Arizona pleaded guilty Tuesday to manslaughter for helping a woman commit suicide in an upstate New York motel room. Stephen Miller is the victim of a 59-year-old woman (identified The New York Times Doreen Brodhead, whose real name was Jonathan Brodhead, was found dead by housekeeping staff at the Super […]
Scottish Bishops Blast Move to Legalize Assisted Suicide
The Scottish Catholic Bishops’ Conference has slammed proposals to legalise assisted suicide in the country, arguing the bill promotes a “false understanding of compassion”. Mercy, properly understood, “does not consist in causing death, but in embracing the sick, supporting them in their difficulties, offering them affection and care, and providing the means to alleviate their […]
UK has once-in-a-generation chance to allow assisted dying, says Labour peer | Assisted dying
Labour Lords, who advocated for legal change, said Parliament faced a once-in-a-generation opportunity to give terminally ill people the choice whether to end their own lives. Charlie Falconer, a former Lord Chancellor who introduced the Bill in the House of Lords last month, said he had received assurances from Downing Street that the Bill would […]
In California, Nearly 900 People Died by Assisted Suicide Last Year
According to a report from the California Department of Public Health, about 900 people in California are expected to die from assisted suicide in 2023. release this month. Of the 1,281 people who received prescriptions for assisted suicide in the state last year, 884 obtained a mix of opioids and sedatives from health care providers […]
‘Tesla Of Euthanasia’: Assisted Suicide Device Set To Be Used For First Time
An assisted suicide device dubbed the “Tesla of euthanasia” is due to be used for the first time in Switzerland next week but is facing backlash. The pod, named “Sacro” and created by 76-year-old Dr Philipp Nitschke, was due to be used in Switzerland next week. according to Metro, but prosecutors are now fighting to […]