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Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
Euthanasia in Belgium: 15% increase in 2023 - Towards a normalisation of programmed death
On Tuesday 27 February, the Federal Commission for the Control and Evaluation of Euthanasia in Belgium (CFCEE) released the figures for euthanasia declared in 2023. The number of euthanasia procedures officially carried out last year has reached a new record: 3,423 euthanasia procedures were declared to the Commission in 2023,...
Organ Donation
From induced death to useful death: increasing organ donation after euthanasia in Quebec
According to a study by the Canadian Medical Association Journal published in January, the number of organ donors who die by euthanasia in Quebec has risen from 4.9% (8 out of 164 donors) in 2018 to 14% (24 out of 171...
Palliative Care
“End of life stories” to prepare for death: the Amfora association renews the approach to palliative care
What is important to me? How do I see my life? What does death mean to me? These existential questions can be difficult to address at the very end of life. Yet they are essential and can help us to live through this...
Illness & Disability
Guy Dembour, a life devoted to revolutionizing the approach to disability
Dr Guy Dembour's mission is to highlight the special abilities of children with Down's Syndrome, focusing on their potential rather than their deficiency. A cardiopediatrician and founder in 2001 of Constridel, a...
Abortion
France and Belgium: abortion remains an icon of ideological battles
On January 30, at the French National Assembly, a large majority of deputies voted in favor of a bill to enshrine women’s “guaranteed freedom” to have an abortion in the Constitution. The text still has to be examined by the Senate on February 28. However, it will only be incorporated...
Surrogacy
Olivia Maurel, born through GPA, testifies to the wounds this practice inflicted on her
"I’m unable to stay silent while I still struggle with the traumatic legacy of surrogacy" Now aged 31, Olivia Maurel is testifying publicly for the first time about the trauma generated in her by the surrogacy from...
Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
Analysis: the Mortier case: the ECtHR assessing the Belgian euthanasia law for the first time
In a judgment delivered on Tuesday, 22/10/2022, the European Court of Human Rights considers that Belgium violated the right to life of a patient euthanized because of depression in 2012.
Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
BREAKING NEWS - The Belgian Constitutional Court rejects the appeal relating to the 2020 law on euthanasia
In a judgment published on Thursday February 17, 2022, the Constitutional Court of Belgium rejects the action for annulment of the law of 15 March 2020 amending the legislation on euthanasia.
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