Our latest newsletter is here – with articles on developments in France, Mexico and Uruguay, an European petition on voluntary assisted dying as a fundamental human right, and more; we hope you enjoy reading: mailchi.mp/0ed5a9af45d4/d…
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The Swiss non-profit member’s society DIGNITAS advocates, educates and supports for improving care and implementing choice in life and at life's end worldwide.
- The Irish government is dragging its feet on legalising assisted dying; seems like it prefers severely ill Irish people to travel to Switzerland, if they can, when they wish for medical aid in self-determining the moment of the end of their suffering.
- The prolonged suffering of Rick Weldon – because of the requirement in the assisted dying law that a person be expected to die within six months. “No other family should have to go through what we did. I hope people fight to change New Zealand's laws."
- Dying On My Own Terms – by ABC Compass Australia Showing the journeys of Berwyn, facing terminal cancer, and Jason, living with motor neurone disease, as they navigate the end of their lives with family and friends, choosing voluntary assisted dying.
- "He has spent his entire life making thoughtful choices for himself and the people he loves. Why should he have to suffer beyond what he finds acceptable? Why shouldn’t he be able to decide when enough is enough?"
