Assisted Suicide

• ‘Suicide pod’ creator speaks out, rejects claim that 1st user was strangled

  Philip Nitschke said called the allegations "absurd" and said he watched her death via video transmission.

  World

  Nov 21, 2024
  
• Ontario woman accused of aiding suicide following Peterborough police probe

  Police say the death of a 73-year-old woman in May 2023 has been linked to a 76-year-old Keswick, Ont., woman.

  Crime

  Dec 6, 2023
  
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• Suicide pods being developed in Switzerland, providing users with a painless death

  The sarco pods allow users to push a button from the inside, which floods the interior with nitrogen, lowering the oxygen level, killing the user painlessly.

  Trending

  Dec 7, 2021
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• Medical assistance in dying should not be extended to patients with mental illness: expert

  One mental health expert is speaking out about why she thinks expanding Quebec's laws around medical assistance in dying to patients with mental illness would be a bad idea.

  Health

  May 21, 2021
• Hospice’s refusal to provide assisted death causing ‘anxiety:’ B.C. mayor

  Members of the Delta Hospice Society will vote on amendments to its constitution, which will say "God is the giver and taker of life.''

  Health

  May 29, 2020
• History of the ’90s podcast: Tracy Latimer and the euthanasia debate

  On this episode of History of the '90s, host Kathy Kenzora looks back at the heated debate that surrounded the death of Tracy Latimer.

  Crime

  Nov 14, 2019
• Doctors face probe in Belgium after euthanizing woman with autism

  Doctors who euthanized a woman with autism are under investigation in Belgium, where doctor-assisted dying is legal for psychiatric reasons.

  World

  Nov 27, 2018
• Scott Thompson: Government says you can die, but they also say when

  Scott Thompson asks, What is the sense of giving those living with a terminal illness the right to die, and not allowing them to pick when?

  Nov 2, 2018
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• Fighting to die: is medically assisted death criteria too vague?

  There are a number of conditions set out by the federal government before a medically assisted death can proceed, but some argue it is too vague.

  Canada

  May 30, 2018
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• Medically assisted death fails Saskatoon family

  Cecilia Chmura wanted to die more than she wanted to live but because her death wasn't "reasonably foreseeable" she was denied a medically assisted death.

  Health

  May 29, 2018