The Titanic sank after it collided with an unseen iceberg. Western societies with low birthrates are steaming straight towards an iceberg in broad daylight. Finally someone has proposed a way to avert disaster. The president of Belgium’s biggest health care fund, Christian Mutualities (CM), wants to throw the elderly overboard.

Don’t imagine that euthanasia’s slippery slope is like a long water slide at a theme park in which you hurdle ever downward, ever faster, until you are hurled into a pool.

Nei Paesi Bassi, tra il 2012 e il 2021, sono stati uccisi 39 pazienti che presentavano disabilità intellettiva o autismo. I “paletti” indicati dalla legge non sono rispettati, a conferma della deriva facilitata dalle norme pro-morte.

We have more work to do than ever now that euthanasia is legal

Wherever euthanasia is debated, the clincher argument is that it will spare a patient agonising pain in a terminal illness. But as these cases from Belgium suggest, euthanasia deaths are being used as an escape route from the aftermath of crime by both victims and criminals. And women may be particularly susceptible.

Scott Kim is a psychiatrist and philosopher who studies medical assistance in dying. He served on the Council of Canadian Academies Expert Panel Working Group on MAID Where a Mental Disorder is the Sole Underlying Medical Condition.

A parliamentary committee recommends liberalising an already liberal “right to die” law

An intensive care nurse reflects on the positive meaning of suffering and dying

The tragic case of Tom Mortier's mother comes to an end after 10 years

The growing movement to legalize physician-assisted suicide raises fundamental questions about how to die well

En 2022 se cumplen dos décadas de la aprobación de la eutanasia en Bélgica. Cuando en 1999 los democristianos quedaron fuera del gobierno y fueron sustituidos por una coalición de socialistas, liberales y verdes, estos pusieron el foco reformador en ciertas cuestiones bioéticas y, en 2002, sacaron a escena la eutanasia.

A major report from 'The Lancet' is contradictory.

Move along, please. Nothing to see here in the organ donation office.

Disguising the true meaning of words is a powerful weapon in the "right to die" armoury

Research shows that the experience of losing a parent through suicide is a risk factor for children. How about VAD?

The completely self-sufficient person is a myth.

History will judge the legalization of euthanasia as one of the two most momentous values decisions of the first half of the 21st Century

We mustn’t sugar-coat the reality of doctors killing their patients

How did the movement arise and where is it going?

Politicians aren't listening to logical, evidence-based arguments.

Contemporary euthanasia is an updated version of early 20th century eugenics

It sounds ghoulish, but doctors in the Netherlands are keen

We need to clear the deck of emotional rhetoric

Language is a weapon for campaigners for the right to die in the UK

Xavi Argemí is a young man who needs 24/7 attention. He can’t walk or do the normal things other young people do. But he wants the world to know how happy he is. He likes to keep busy but still found time to answer our questions.

Even in the home of legal euthanasia some actions are beyond the pale.

At the beginning of this year, I was invited to take part in an online debate on the topic of assisted suicide organised by a Scottish university in front of a large number of students.

Candidati all'eutanasia e donatori di organi: la cosiddetta "eutanasia del buon samaritano" è già praticata in Belgio, Paesi Bassi e Canada, ma un articolo scientifico spiega come si allargheranno le possibilità di questa pratica per aumentare la disponibilità di organi da espiantare: anzitutto prevedendo l'inizio del processo eutanasico in casa per agevolare i potenziali donatori; poi puntando su malati mentali e depressi: corpi sani e giovani, ottimi per il trapianto, poco utili in una persona insana.

Is it really discriminatory to stop someone with a mental illness from accessing 'assisted dying'?

As G.K. Chesterton pointed out, logic and consistency are neglected in many debates about end-of-life issues.

A Belgian nurse explains some of his experiences

We have an 'animal' notion of good health, he says

An Australian lawyer and Catholic priest defends his right to speak up in the assisted dying debate

If assisted dying were to be legalised, suicide might eventually be regarded as evidence of sanity.

Some Canadian doctors believe that it is, despite the pandemic

La eutanasia no es una decisión individual que afectaría solo al enfermo que la pide. Su legalización es algo que repercute en las relaciones entre enfermo y familiares, en la ética de los profesionales sanitarios y en la consideración social del respeto a la vida humana. Así lo pone de manifiesto un artículo de Luis Miguel Pastor, editor de Cuadernos de Bioética, en un número de la revista dedicado a “Morir con dignidad y eutanasia”, del que ofrecemos una selección de párrafos.

A new era of nihilism begins

As former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating said, ‘the pressures for further liberalisation are irresistible’

World Medical Association reaffirms its opposition

It may take many generations to realise the damage that 'Medical Aid in Dying" will do

Kelly è giovane, ha un fidanzato, è bella e sana: ma dice di non piacersi e di essere timida. Per questo chiede l'eutanasia. Il Belgio è spaccato su un caso che svela le bugie sull'eutanasia, mentre i numeri della dolce morte si impennano: oltre 2300 decessi nel 2018. Una volta che un Paese accetta l’idea che talune vite non siano degne di essere vissute, la morte si manifesta per l’influencer che è, con le «vite indegne» che crescono continuamente di numero.

El norteamericano Ben Mattlin tiene 57 años y es periodista freelance y escritor. O quizás, más que escritor, es “dictador”, pero no por tener impulsos autocráticos, sino porque es esa su forma de escribir: dictarle a un ordenador sus expresiones para que las transforme en texto escrito.

Varios países están facilitando la elección del tiempo y el modo en que las personas desean morir, pero en Holanda, capital mundial de la eutanasia, las consecuencias de todo esto comienzan a preocupar

Si se acepta el criterio dominante en la consulta ciudadana conocida como los “Estados generales de la bioética”, en el proyecto de ley que debe presentar el gobierno francés al parlamento no se mencionará el fin de la vida, regulado en la ley Claeys-Leonetti, de 2016. No obstante, ante la presión de los partidarios de la eutanasia y la lentitud con que el Estado afronta la mejora y universalización de los cuidados paliativos, más de 175 asociaciones especializadas en atención paliativa han firmado un manifiesto en el que resumen su postura a favor del cuidado de las personas en la etapa final de la vida.

In questi anni si sta rompendo forse l’ultima barriera, pensando a una nuova legge che permetta l’assistenza al suicidio a gente che è di per sé sana. Con questo siamo arrivati forse giù ai piedi del monte?. Le esperienze olandesi devono metterci in guardia. I criteri per compiere l’eutanasia o il suicidio assistito, sono sempre più estesi e mostrano storicamente e culturalmente il rischio di avanzare verso il baratro del piano inclinato.

It is still banned, but the government is looking at its options

Latest official report reveals reasons.

Many feel acute emotional distress after helping someone to die

Traduzione dell'articolo di George Weigel, intitolato "E' una guerra culturale, stupido", apparso il 22 agosto 2017 su First Things. Weigel, noto intellettuale americano biografo di san Giovanni Paolo II, spiega cosa sta accandendo in Canada dove la legalizzazione dell'eutansia porta all'eliminazione obbligata di coloro la cui "qualità della vità" non è considerata sufficiente.

Tracy Grant is a deputy managing editor at The Washington Post. Last year her husband Bill was diagnosed with brain cancer and went downhill very quickly. But she says in this video that the experience drew the best out of her and made her a better person. Her article, on which this video is based, was headlined, “I was my husband’s caregiver as he was dying of cancer. It was the best seven months of my life.”