Natural law is not a physical law or a law that man has imposed on himself. It is a universal moral law, intrinsic to man, instilled in his conscience. We have all heard children exclaim “that’s not fair!” or shared similar emotions over international events. These experiences show the commonality of an awareness of good … Read more

The statement is that patients with terminal anorexia nervosa deserve the same attendant care and rights as all other patients with terminal illness. The article studies three cases to elucidate this condition then proposes clinical characteristics for a terminal eating disorder: diagnosis of anorexia nervosa, older age (over 30), previous participation in high quality care, … Read more

An amendment to the Government’s Health and Care Bill sought to force the Government into drafting an assisted suicide bill within a year of the Health and Care Bill becoming law. The Association of Palliative Medicine (APM) has warned that the public is being “scared” into supporting assisted suicide through an excessive focus by the … Read more

Freud correlatively differentiates between three fundamental prohibitions, three universal taboos which form the basis of the conditions of existence of culture: the taboos of cannibalism, incest and murder. Since the dawn of human history, this triple prohibition separates the state of culture from the state of nature, writes Freud. Source

It has been argued that the legalisation of medical assistance in dying would decrease or, at least, not have an effect on suicide rates. David Albert Jones, Director of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre in Oxford, published a study in The Journal of Ethics in Mental Health showing the opposite. In Switzerland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and … Read more

In France, the public debate about the legalisation of assisted suicide, is raging. In December 2021, psychiatrists published a study that reconsidered the role of psychiatrists in dealing with requests for medical aid in dying. The study was based on 127 articles obtained mostly from Pubmed and Cairn, from 1997 to 2020 in Switzerland, the … Read more

In December 2021 Dignitas, a Swiss organisation that promotes “the right to die with dignity”, submitted a Preliminary Question of Constitution (PQC) countering the ban of pentobarbital in France. Pentoparbital is used in Switzerland and Belgium for assisted suicide. On 21 December 2021 the French Council rejected the proposal highlighting the risks of pentobarbital to … Read more