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Euthanasia and disability: what does the UN criticize about the French bill?
Although the National Assembly adopted the bill on “the right to die with assistance” at first reading on May 27, 2025, debates on this bill to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide seemed to be on hold pending the Senate's review of the text next fall.
However, the debate was reignited in...
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France - What's in the plan to legalise assisted suicide?
Since this week, the French National Assembly has been examining in public session two bills relating to the end of life. The first concerns ‘palliative and supportive care’, while the second deals with ‘aid in dying’....
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Canada: UN recommends banning euthanasia for people whose death is not ‘reasonably foreseeable’
On 18 March 2025, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) adopted its concluding observations. These observations are part of the review of the periodic reports submitted by Canada...
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+16,6% : why does the number of euthanasia cases continue to increase in Belgium?
In 2024, 3,991 euthanasia cases were recorded in Belgium by the Commission responsible for reviewing them, marking a clear increase (+16.6%) compared to 2023.
Euthanasia is thus becoming an increasingly frequent way of...
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Proposed extension of Belgian euthanasia law: critical feedback from the Netherlands
Hearings are continuing in the Federal Parliament on the proposed law to extend euthanasia to people who have become incapable of expressing their wishes, on the basis of an advance declaration.
On Wednesday 22 January, two experts from the Netherlands presented the implications of such an extension, based on the Dutch...
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Euthanasia in Ontario: over 400 breaches of the euthanasia law result in only reminders of the law
Between 2018 and 2023, more than 400 criminal offences involving euthanasia were recorded in Ontario. In 2024, doctors revealed this figure to the press, highlighting the facts contained in various reports from the...
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Organ donation after euthanasia: Altruism to mask utilitarianism?
The 10th ‘Sympadot’ symposium, organised on 21 November by the Transplantation Department of Brussels University Hospital (Erasme), focused on organ donation and transplantation. Among the topics discussed was the...
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Australia: Study highlights impact of euthanasia on palliative care
A study published in the journal BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care in May 2024 looked at the impact of euthanasia on palliative care in Victoria, where the practice has been decriminalised in 2017. The study was...