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Montevideo, May 30th 2025 - 13:27 UTC

Tag: euthanasia

  • Monday, May 12th 2025 - 11:19 UTC

    France to resume parliamentary debate on assisted dying

    French Guiana could join Colombia as the only other place in South America allowing euthanasia

    France's Parliament is expected to resume this week the discussion on whether to legalize euthanasia or any other form of “dignified dying,” with two main bills on the table, one focusing on palliative care and the other seeking to move forward with assisted suicide. The debate had been halted in June when President Emmanuel Macron dissolved the National Assembly.

  • Friday, March 14th 2025 - 10:04 UTC

    New euthanasia bill submitted before Uruguayan Congress

    We cannot force people to suffer, argued Preve

    Uruguayan lawmakers submitted a new euthanasia bill before the Lower House, reviving a proposal already passed there in 2022 but stalled in the Senate. The bill, introduced by deputies from the Colorado Party (PC) and the ruling Brooad Front (Frente Amplio - FA), is supported by a multiparty coalition including members of the Partido Nacional and Partido Independiente. The initiative seeks to allow assisted death for individuals with terminal, incurable, and irreversible diseases.

  • Tuesday, January 7th 2025 - 21:07 UTC

    Uruguayan future lawmakers hope to get euthanasia legalized shortly

    In Preve's view, legal euthanasia is a much-needed alternative and “a right for many people who are in quite complicated situations”

    The incoming administration of Uruguay's future President Yamandú Orsi taking office on March 1 may see the euthanasia bill passed, it was reported this week in Montevideo. The initiative is currently stalled in the Senate.

  • Monday, October 28th 2024 - 08:48 UTC

    Cicero's case rekindles debate on euthanasia and assisted suicide in Brazil

    Cicero, 79, had Alzheimer's disease

    The case of Brazilian poet and composer António Cicero, who died through euthanasia last week in Switzerland, has rekindled the debate in South America's largest country on whether such a practice should be legalized, Agencia Brasil reported Sunday.

  • Saturday, April 13th 2024 - 10:43 UTC

    Ecuador's govt issues guidelines for application of euthanasia

    The Constitutional Court had given Noboa's government 60 days to enact the rules under which physicians would apply this ultimate treatment

    Ecuador's conservative government of President Daniel Noboa Friday issued the guidelines for the implementation of euthanasia following the Constitutional Court's (CC) instructions in a ruling granting the request of 42-year-old amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patient Paola Roldán who died on March 11. The malady is also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

  • Sunday, April 16th 2023 - 12:15 UTC

    Dutch gov't to extend euthanasia option to children aged 1 to 12

    “This is a very complex subject that deals with harrowing situations that you would not wish on anyone,” Kuipers said

    Dutch Health Minister Ernst Kuipers Friday announced that regulations were being drafted so that euthanasia can be applied to that small group of children aged 1 to 12 “for whom palliative care options are not sufficient to alleviate their suffering” and who has “such a serious illness or disorder that death is inevitable.”

  • Friday, October 7th 2022 - 10:57 UTC

    Uruguay's Lower House passes euthanasia bill

    The extraordinary session had 18 hours of debate before the bill, introduced in 2020, was formally voted on.

    Uruguay's Lower House Thursday passed a bill legalizing euthanasia with 57 votes out of 96. The project now goes to the Senate for further Parliamentarian treatment.

  • Wednesday, September 7th 2022 - 10:30 UTC

    Uruguayan Lower House committee okays euthanasia bill

    The process is very clear, Lustemberg said

    The Health Committee of Uruguay's Lower House has passed a bill approving euthanasia. The body is now to debate the issue in a plenary session, probably next month, it was reported in Montevideo.

  • Thursday, August 18th 2022 - 09:26 UTC

    Uruguayan Health Minister says monkeypox stable

    Salinas also said he was more for life than for euthanasia, like former President end fellow physician Tabaré Vázquez

    Uruguay's Health Minister Daniel Salinas Wednesday explained the monkeypox outbreak in his country was “stable” after 50 suspected cases have been ruled out.

  • Monday, June 27th 2022 - 09:15 UTC

    Most Uruguayans favor legalizing euthanasia

    This year's study yielded results almost identical to the ones from 2020

    A survey released this weekend has shown that 55% of Uruguayans are in favor of legalizing euthanasia, while 25% opposed it and the rest still has to make up their minds on the controversial issue.

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