February 15, 2026
He knows how he wants to die …
With his research, Boudewijn Chabot (84) provided insight into dying on one’s own terms for the first time. A repeat study of that work was published on Friday. Now that his own end is in sight, he knows that he will stop eating and drinking. “It’s a long goodbye.” This article was written by Haro […]
February 8, 2026
BMJ Reports on UK Bill
Many lords are focused on optimising patient choice, safety, and control at the end of life, but as lords ourselves we are concerned that numerous amendments from ideological opponents risk undermining the bill entirely, write Dianne Hayter and colleagues Last summer, the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill to regulate medically assisted dying in […]
February 7, 2026
New York adopts medical aid in dying with new safeguards
Joshua Villanueva reports for The Jurist New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed the “Medical Aid in Dying Act” on Friday, making New York the latest state to authorize physician-assisted dying for certain terminally ill patients. The law represents a major policy reversal in a state where the highest court had previously emphasized that assisted suicide […]
January 28, 2026
German Prosecutors investigate after suicide of Florian Willet
Two members of a German euthanasia organisation are alleged to have helped Florian Willet commit suicide, even though he was mentally ill. It is therefore possible that he did not make his decision of his own free will. The Cologne public prosecutor’s office is investigating two people associated with the German Society for Humane Dying […]
January 25, 2026
AI, Sarco & the Right to Die
The inventor of the controversial Sarco suicide pod says AI software could one day replace psychiatrists in assessing mental capacity for those seeking assisted dying. Philip Nitschke has spent more than three decades arguing that the right to die should belong to people, not doctors. Now, the Australian euthanasia campaigner behind the controversial Sarco pod […]
January 24, 2026
Controversial Swiss Suicide Pod Gets an AI Mental Fitness Upgrade
There have been many high-profile stories in which chatbots have effectively encouraged and enabled people experiencing mental health crises to kill themselves, which has resulted in several wrongful death lawsuits against the companies responsible for the AI models behind the bots. Now we’ve got the inverse: if you want to use your right to die, […]
January 21, 2026
Philip Nitschke on BBC HARDtalk
It is over a decade since Dr Philip Nitschke appeared on BBC HARDtalk His interview is as relevant in 2026 as it was in 2015! Philip is the founder and director of the pro-euthanasia group Exit International. Philip says he believes the right to die should be recognised as a fundamental human right, rather than […]
January 21, 2026
Sarco Pod for Couples
In September 2024, a 64-year-old woman became the first human to experience her last moments in a futuristic killing device known as the Sarco pod. Amid a verdant forest in Switzerland’s Schaffhausen region, she climbed inside the 3D-printed capsule, pressed a button, and took a deep breath before nitrogen flooded the vessel. The woman lost […]
