SEPTEMBER 2010
The Humanist Society of Scotland is backing proposed legislation to legalize assisted suicide in Scotland.
Two British people have been arrested under suspicion of assisting the suicide of a man who traveled to Switzerland to die.
AUGUST 2010
A Hong Kong man who gained national attention when he asked for euthanasia has left the hospital where he lived for 19 years to reside in a flat adapted for his needs.
A British broadcaster will face charges over claims that he killed his lover.
A Canadian man sentenced for killing his 12-year-old daughter with disabilities has been granted a parole review.
The Final Exit Network not only places billboards advocating suicide, it makes house calls to carry out the act.
An Indian man is asking for euthanasia for his family of five because he has no money.
Two Australian marketing agencies were asked to make compulsory euthanasia at age 80 marketable.
Officials in India are trying to talk an Indian woman out of her request for death by euthanasia.
The Montreal group Living wit Dignity is working to ensure that euthanasia and assisted suicide are not legalized in Quebec.
A woman in India has asked a high court for permission for euthanasia.
A Chinese man has been sentenced after giving a woman a poison to assist her suicide.
Compassion and Choices poses a bigger threat than the Final Exit Network with its suicide billboards.
JULY 2010
A Georgia man with Lou Gehrig’s disease wants to be killed for his organs.
Euthanasia proponent Kathryn Tucker is working in Idaho to “sell” assisted suicide as already legal in Idaho, even though it is not.
Over 8,000 British people have signed a national petition opposing a bill which would make euthanasia legal in the UK.
Canadian Members of Parliament are seeking positive alternatives to euthanasia and assisted suicide after defeating a bill to legalize these acts.
The pro-euthanasia group Compassion and Choices is targeting Idaho as a state to legalize assisted suicide.
Proponents of assisted suicide are trying to change the rhetoric of the debate to their advantage by calling it assisted dying.
A British end-of-life care expert says that legalizing euthanasia would signal to terminally ill people that they would be better off dead.
A Scottish man has been found guilty of attempted murder for trying to smother his wife who has disabilities with a pillow.
A British man with severe disabilities is asking the Director of Public Prosecutions to not press charges against his wife if she kills him by lethal injection.
Concern is being raised over the appointment of a rationing advocate as the implementer of the federal health care plan and if that will eventually lead to promotion of assisted suicide as has occurred in Oregon.
Montana legislator calls for bill to legalize assisted suicide.
Oregon doctor charges that a pro-euthanasia group is trying to indoctrinate the people of Idaho.
The British Royal Society of Medicine strongly rejects assisted suicide.
A leading Scottish doctors warns that legalizing assisted suicide would betray Scottish values.
British author says assisted suicide can be a “celebration.”
Over 14,000 Scots have signed a petition opposing a bill in Scotland’s Parliament to legalize assisted suicide.
JUNE 2010
The Oregon Medical Board has suspended a doctor who wants to open a house in Portland where people can go to kill themselves.
Final Exit Network “right-to-die” billboards could send the wrong message to people who are suicidal.
A new grassroots group has formed in Quebec to oppose assisted suicide and euthanasia.
Assisted suicide opponents have dealt a blow to the proposed Scottish legalization bill by expressing overwhelming opposition to the special committee set up to examine the measure.
New charges may be issued against a British doctor who admitted he helped dozens of patients to die by giving them high doses of pain killers.
Euthanasia cases have risen 13% in Holland in the last year.
The Final Exit Network (FEN) is putting up billboards in California, New Jersey and Florida telling people they have a “right to die.”
A Wisconsin inmate was sentenced to 27 months in prison for assisting the suicide of a cellmate.
One fifth of Belgian nurses admitted to researchers that they helped to euthanize patients without their consent by assuming they wanted to die.
