The Supreme Court on Wednesday permitted the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment for 31-year-old Harish Rana, who has remained in a permanent vegetative state for more than a decade after ...

Arguments about public policy are funny things. Consider the debate about whether active voluntary or non-voluntary euthanasia ought to be legalised. By voluntary euthanasia I mean euthanasia with the ...

There are 2 ways of combining terminal sedation with the termination of life-sustaining treatment: Combination of terminal sedation with withdrawing or withholding life-sustaining medical treatment; ...

In PAS, the physician supplies the information and perhaps the tools for the patient to induce their own death. This is the version of assisted suicide permitted in Canada and the US states in which a ...

This article was written by Carlos Gutiérrez and published in CONNECTAS on February 23, 2024. An edited version is republished in Global Voices under a media partnership. The attendees will never ...