In Ireland, motor neurone disease (MND) patients are not routinely ventilated. Instead, patients are sedated, helped, counselled, eased into death. In this article, Simon Fitzmaurice, an award-winning writer and film director, shares the story of an incredible fight to live despite being diagnosed with MND.

Dr Diane E. Meier is one of America's leading palliative care physicians. She is Director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City and is the recipient of numerous awards. She was once an advocate of assisted suicide, but has changed her mind. Visit this article to find out why she now thinks about Euthanasia.

South Australia is pushing to legalize euthanasia! However a number of senior doctors from around Australia have severely criticized South Australia’s proposed euthanasia legislation, describing it as a dangerous bill which will place vulnerable patients at risk. In a letter to SA’s parliamentarians, Doctors Opposed to Euthanasia argue that elderly people would be pressured into dying and that the bill would inevitably lead to involuntary euthanasia.

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Are we sufficiently jarred? Why would anybody devise a method to help people end their lives? And what in the world drives people to want to do that? Sadly a 91-year-old woman in San Diego County has been caught selling 'suicide kits' for $60 to people throughout the country, of all ages. Read this article for more.

There was a moment during Australia's last national debate on euthanasia that deserves to be revisited by a new generation of legislators, a moment that crystallised fears that the so-called right to die would come to be felt by the frailest among us more as a "duty to die". Should "unproductive burdens" on society do the right thing by the rest of us and make an early exit?

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Scenes of a young couple in wheelchairs and an elderly bedridden father rejoicing with his son at Spain's World Cup victory poignantly affirm that "there's always a reason to live" in a video produced by the Spanish Episcopal Conference for this year's pro-life campaign.

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Listen to Pope John Paul II's famous words, declaring that all human life, at all stages of life, is sacred.

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A review of research carried out over 20 years suggests that UK doctors appear to consistently oppose euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS). The findings -- which appear in the latest issue of the journal Palliative Medicine, -- highlight a gap between doctors' attitudes and those of the UK public.

I have researched and written on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide for over thirty years. I’m going to assume that you have probably heard all the usual arguments for and against euthanasia, many of which are very important and prominent in this debate. But I want to focus on some aspects that might not yet have been presented.

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This week a committee of the Hawaii Senate voted to shelve a bill for physician-assisted suicide after listening to emotional public testimony. Here are some of the stories.