In living, suffering and dying, most of us want to extend the first, minimize the second and
pass swiftly through the third. However, at the prospect of death, two views collide. The first …

“The time has come for this Parliament to find a way to decriminalize medical assistance in
dying, which is of such vital importance to those whose suffering can no longer be relieved …

In this new addition to the'Debating Law'series, Emily Jackson and John Keown re-examine
the legal and ethical aspects of the euthanasia debate. Emily Jackson argues that we owe it …

Although genuinely new and novel arguments surrounding the permissibility of euthanasia
have been thin on the ground in recent years, the issue itself is going through a period of …

In a sense it all began here, in a bar in Singapore in 1995, when a young Englishwoman
met a Cuban jazz musician, and despite her not being able to speak a word of Spanish and …

It is an irony of progress that some of the most powerful technological advances in modern
medical care that have made it possible to save the lives of thousands of people have also …

Acting as the conductor on the train of impending death, a divisive turn to the left will hasten
human pain and end life; while a swerve to the right will prolong human life, but also, extend …

2013 Thinkstock contends the opposite is true.“In the jurisdictions where euthanasia and
physician-assisted suicide have become legal, there has been less of an incentive to …

The life is pleasant till it is enjoyable and one wants to die only when the pleasure of life is
over. But, when one wants death and it does not come it becomes a hail of agony for the …