Tag: euthanasia

• Friday, March 14th 2025 - 10:04 UTC

  New euthanasia bill submitted before Uruguayan Congress

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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 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

  

  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

  

  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.

• Saturday, June 18th 2022 - 11:41 UTC

  First case of medically-assisted suicide in Italy carried out

  

  The case of Federico Carboni, originally known as “Mario,” has made the headlines this week in Italy as he became the first patient to die through medically-assisted suicide, it was announced.