Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide & End-of-Life Care

Meghan Schrader By Meghan Schrader Meghan is a disability activists and a member of the EPC-USA board. This blog post responds to the fact that the American Association of Suicidology’s 2017 statement saying that Oregon Model “MAiD” is not “suicide,” previously “ retired ” by the AAS Executive Committee in 2023, was reissued verbatim this year. I may write follow-up blog posts about this development, but I will stick with this one for now. Clearly the AAS is comprised of brilliant scholars who have done great good for suicide prevention. Yet AAS’s vacillation can be understood to suggest that

Assisted dying laws vary globally, with around 400 million people living in countries where it is legal, including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Austria, and France, each having different eligibility criteria and methods of administration. In the US, assisted dying is legal in 13 states and Washington DC, with Oregon pioneering the model since 1997, while European countries like the Netherlands and Belgium allow euthanasia and assisted dying for a broader range of patients, including children, and some British Isles regions like Jersey have recently legalized it with specific residency requirements and options for physician administration.

Care Not Killing welcomed the defeat of Lauren Edwards' Assisted Suicide Bill, with Dr Gordon Macdonald emphasizing that MPs recognized the risks of the legislation and prioritized improving palliative and social care systems instead. Dr Macdonald highlighted concerns from MPs, hospices, and disabled people about the bill's safety and potential pressure on vulnerable individuals, citing examples from Oregon and Canada where assisted suicide laws expanded beyond their original scope.

Under Spanish law, any adult can qualify for euthanasia if they have a 'serious and incurable illness or a serious, chronic, and disabling condition.' The post The Recent Euthanasia Death of a Young Woman in Spain is Part of an Alarming Trend first appeared on Oregon Right to Life .

On April 1, the Oregon Health Association (OHA) published its annual Death with Dignity Act (DWDA) Report. This report provides a statistical overview of the rates of assisted suicide in the state and the demographics of its victims. Although the report purports to demonstrate the government’s oversight and good documentation of assisted suicide, it ends up highlighting the defects and troubling information gaps plaguing the DWDA’s system. Untracked Prescriptions and Lost Lethal Drugs Assisted suicide has been legal […] The post Disturbing Data: Analyzing Oregon’s 2025 Death with Dignity Act R

Most of the media are in the tank (remember Brittany Maynard?) for the assisted suicide/euthanasia agenda and, as a consequence, are primarily interested in reporting on stories of “good deaths.” That criticism does not apply to The Atlantic, which recently published a scathing exposé of the cruelties inherent in Canada’s euthanasia regime. Now, staff writer Elizabeth Bruenig has published an important piece detailing how a mentally ill 31-year-old woman named Eileen Mihich was able to access poison drugs by writing herself a fraudulent prescription for death, which was filled unquestioningly