This short film Gina, by Wendell Cooke and Jeremy Macey, has been mentioned in New Zealand & Queensland parliaments and gained over 100,000 views before assisted dying was legalised in New Zealand.

Charles Forsdick concludes the Reading Bodies takeover and discusses how this project on historical discourses of illness in European literatures and cultures contributes to rethinking the medical …

Het refrein is Hein, a book by Bert Keizer, provides an unvarnished look at ageing and suffering, and invites the reader to reflect on ethical dilemmas such as that of assisted dying.

Una mayoría progresista se dispone a aprobar este miércoles la norma en el Senado

About This webinar is jointly organised by the Forum for Global Health Ethics, Assisted Lab (University of St Gallen), and the Competence Center Medicine, Ethics, Law Helvetiae (MERH), University of ...

Eve’s mother saw VAD as a way to reclaim bodily autonomy and dignity, but gaining approval to use the scheme took nine ‘traumatic’ weeks * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Eve Crotty describes her mum Marion’s death as peaceful and painless. They were on the couch in their family home, Crotty on one side, her dad on the other, singing Sex on Fire by Kings of Leon. It was a running joke in the family – when Crotty was little, she thought the lyrics were “socks on fire”. “No teenager should ever have to lose a parent. It was an extremely sad moment that will live with me forever, but her death was tranquil,” Crotty, now 21, says. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123, or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie. In the US, you can call or text the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 988, chat on 988lifeline.org, or text HOME to 741741 to connect with a crisis counselor. Other international helplines can be found at befrienders.org Continue reading...

In this TV series, Anémone Leduc is forced to reckon with her past because of a diagnosis of hereditary early onset Alzheimer’s disease.

In the complex drama that emerges assisted dying is used both to explore moral issues and as a plot device in a police thriller.

The memoir recounts Carlos Montaner's fight for democratization in Cuba and for the right to access legal euthanasia in Spain.

Mount devoted his life to caring for others and alleviating suffering. In interviews, his family and colleagues remembered him as both deeply compassionate and as a fierce advocate for the humanity of...

Narrating her journey of self-discovery and of living with ALS, Roldán's spiritual memoir helped promote her plea for self-determination in Ecuador.

The documentary ‘Levenseindekliniek’ revolves around the Dutch End-of-Life Clinic, an organization that deals with patients whose euthanasia requests are complex. The film follows three patients who r...

In der Debatte um Sterbehilfe geht es meist um Autonomie und Freiheit. Doch was ist mit jenen, die im Leben nicht genug Unterstützung für ein lebenswertes Dasein erhalten?

In der Debatte um Sterbehilfe geht es meist um Autonomie und Freiheit. Doch was ist mit jenen, die im Leben nicht genug Unterstützung für ein lebenswertes Dasein erhalten?

‘October’ subtly broaches the topic of passive euthanasia, and ultimately affirms conventional beliefs held in India about the sacredness of life.

Before publication, Margrit Schäppi took her life with the aid of a Swiss assisted suicide organisation.

Written as Cory Taylor was dying, this memoir explores her wish, illegal in Australia at the time, that she could have an assisted death with her family present.

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In Sofía Almiroty’s debut novel, Ariana takes her grandmother Rosa, whose skin is ravaged by cancer, to say goodbye to the town where she grew up.