Reporting and scrutiny of reported cases in four jurisdictions where assisted dying is lawful

Assisted-dying demand concentrated in four provinces.

Since medical assistance in dying (MAiD) became legal across Canada on June 17, most demand for the service is in four provinces. There have been at least 374 medically assisted deaths, according to The Globe and Mail, with 360 of those in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario and Quebec. Nearly half were in Quebec, where MAiD has been legal for more than 10 months. There have been 87 medically as...

Pushing the boundaries of lawful assisted dying in The Netherlands? Existential suffering and lay assistance.

Two matters that have a significant presence in the contemporary Dutch assisted dying debate, are the nature of the suffering required for an assisted death to be lawful, and the issue of who can lawfully assist. This article explores whether the lawful medical assisted dying model is too restrictive in failing to recognise existential suffering, considering selected case studies involving such...

Reporting New Cases and Recurrence of Tuberculosis in 1994

 گزارش موارد جدید و عود سل که در دسامبر ۱۹۹۴ به سازمان بهداشت جهانی ارائه شده بود، تحت عنوان گزارش جدید سل در دسامبر ۱۹۹۴ مورد تجزیه و تحلیل قرار گرفت. بیشتر اطلاعات توسط کشورهای عضو، از سازمان بهداشت جهانی ناحیه ای و ادارات بهداشتی کشورها و یا مستقیماً از برنامه های ملی مبارزه با سل تهیه گردیده بود. علاوه بر آن، اطلاعات حاصله از اتحادیه بین المللی مبارزه با سل، بیماریهای ریوی و مروری بر مطالعات...

Assisted dying.

Professor Finlay is absolutely right that GPs’ opinions are vitally important in the assisted dying debate, and that it is important for the College to have a view on this issue.1 Physician-assisted suicide would involve GPs in assessing requests for assisted suicide and would also require GPs to prescribe lethal doses of medication. It would also be highly stressful for GPs, as seen in the Net...

The chaplain's role: where aid in dying is legal.