Euthanasia Prevention Coalition-USA Statement  RE: New York Senate Bill S.2445 - Assisted Suicide also known as “Medical Aid in Dying” Dear Senator: The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition USA supports positive measures to improve the quality of life of people, which also helps their families. We oppose euthanasia and assisted suicide. We are aging and disability advocates, lawyers, doctors, nurses and politicians.  Please let S.2445 die this session, while legislators are deeply divided amid heightened concerns about inequities for people of color and those living with disability. Pro ..read more

Dear Hungarians, Amanda Achtman I visited your country this time last year and was deeply impressed and inspired by it. Now that I hear Hungary is considering legalizing euthanasia, I must issue a warning to you about this from my home country of Canada. Canada legalized euthanasia nationwide in 2016. Since then, with the criteria expanded and safeguards eroded, euthanasia now accounts for 4.1% of all deaths and is the fifth leading cause of death. In fact, the number of Canadians who have died by euthanasia since legalization is commensurate with the total number of Canadians who ..read more

Alex Schadenberg Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition St. Paul's Hospital The British Columbia government is building a euthanasia center next to St Paul's Hospital in Vancouver in response to a complaint that palliative care patients did not have access to euthanasia at the Catholic hospital. Shannon Paterson reported for CTV news Vancouver on November 29 that: The provincial government is constructing a new clinical space adjacent to St Paul's Hospital so palliative care patients who choose to undergo medical assistance in dying or MAID don’t have to be loaded into ..read more

Alex Schadenberg Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Natassia Chrysanthos reported for the Sydney Morning Herald on November 30, 2023 that Federal Court Justice Wendy Abraham ruled that: voluntary assisted dying was considered suicide under the code, which means doctors could be charged under laws that prohibit using a carriage service – such as telehealth, email or phone calls – to incite or provide information about suicide. The landmark decision means that doctors who approve assisted via telehealth or by any other carriage service can be charged under the federal law for ..read more

Medical killing obviously undermines cultural preservation.   By Amanda Achtman   Amanda Achtman Health Canada is currently conducting a survey of Indigenous perspectives on Canada’s euthanasia program. These are some examples of the highly leading questions the Government is using in its attempt to solicit support for euthanasia from Indigenous respondents: What supports should be in place to allow Indigenous people to make decisions about MAID? What supports should be in place to help someone preparing for their MAID journey? What supports should be in place to hel ..read more

Alex Schadenberg Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. Baroness Finlay of Llandaff, a member of the UK House of Lords and a Professor in palliative care warned Scotland's government that: online content is promoting a “culture of death”. Llandaff also warned Scotland's government legalizing assisted death could “gradually get eroded”, leading to “almost death in demand”. Sophie Villegas reported for Holyrood on November 29 Baroness Finlay commenting on Canada's experience with euthanasia: “It becomes too easy for people to view death as a solution. It's been estimated that it ..read more

Alex Schadenberg Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Dániel Karsai is an Hungarian who lives with a progressive neurodegenerative condition who brought a case to European Court of Human Rights this week to challenge the Hungary's laws prohibiting euthanasia and assisted suicide. Daily News Hungary reported on November 29, 2023 that the Hungarian government intervened in the case by opposing any changes to their laws. According to Daily News Hungary the Hungarian Justice Ministry told the European Court of Human Rights that: The ministry said Hungary considered "unacceptable ..read more

The following press release is from ADF International on November 28, 2023. Dániel Karsai, Hungarian national suffering from progressive neurodegenerative condition, seeks legalization of assisted suicide in Hungary before European Court of Human Rights in oral hearing today.  ADF International intervenes, arguing that Hungary is obligated to protect the right to life; there is no “right to die”. Strasbourg (28 November 2023) – Hungarian national Dániel Karsai, diagnosed with a progressive neurodegenerative condition, brought his challenge to Hungary’s ban on assisted suicide before ..read more

Alex Schadenberg Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Portugal's Parliament Natasha Donn reported for the Portugal Resident on November 24 that Portugal's government will defer implementing regulations for euthanasia until after the next election that is scheduled for March 10, 2024. According to the report by Donn: health minister Manuel Pizarro has announced. Effectively dodging another ‘thorny’ issue (having already ditched talks with striking doctors, again because of the elections), the minister told Lusa that “the process of regulating the law is under development and will be an in ..read more

Alex Schadenberg Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. I have always been told that any reference to the Nazi euthanasia program is a sign of extremism, but this article is not comparing the modern euthanasia program to the euthanasia program in Nazi Germany but rather it is an investigation into the Nazi euthanasia program. The Lancet Commission on medicine, Nazism and the Holocaust released their report on November 8, 2023. Nazi doctors, Nurembourg A commentary on the findings of the Lancet Commision in relation to the Nazi euthanasia program was published on Novemb ..read more