Fear is mounting throughout the medical community in New Zealand after it was recently uncovered that euthanasia doctors could be trained on how to kill patients in a sole six-hour online course.

Spain has passed a law which will allow vulnerable people to be killed by euthanasia. The day has been described as “disastrous” and “devastating.”

Canada’s House of Commons has passed a revised Bill, which if successful, would allow those suffering from mental illness to be killed by euthanasia.

Portugal’s Constitutional Court has blocked a law decriminalising euthanasia because it did not have “the necessary rigour” required to be passed.

53% of people killed by assisted suicide in the US state of Oregon during 2020, said that they feared “being a burden on family, friends/caregivers” if they continued to live, according to the latest report on assisted suicide published by the Oregon Health Authority.

A damning report by the Australian Catholic University’s PM Glynn Institute has found that Australia has less than half of the recommended number of palliative care doctors needed to take care of dying and chronically ill patients.

A study of people aged 50 and over has revealed that the “wish to die” expressed by some participants was ultimately temporary in most cases. 

Catholic bishops in Ireland have denounced the Irish “Dying with Dignity Bill” as “a failure of compassion on the part of society”.

There has been a rapid rise in deaths caused by euthanasia across Belgium and the Netherlands, according to a Vienna based bioethics institute. 

A new bill has been filed in the state of California that would leave doctors with little option but to facilitate and be complicit in the assisted suicide of willing patients.

A concerned medic from New Zealand has said it is “despicable” that doctors are being offered money to entice them to perform euthanasia. 

More than 2,000 healthcare professionals, including doctors, nurses and geriatricians, have signed an open letter stating that they are “gravely concerned” about the attempt to introduce euthanasia and assisted dying in the Republic of Ireland.

Ontario’s Chief Coroner has announced that there were 2,378 reported assisted deaths in Ontario in 2020, up by a third from 1,789 the year before.

Spain is on course to ratify a euthanasia law this spring allowing assisted suicide across the country. 

Delta Hospice in British Columbia, Canada, has been forced to lay off workers and now faces eviction because it declines to euthanise patients.