Euthanasia generally involves a health practitioner administering a lethal dose to intentionally end a person’s life, usually in the form of a lethal injection.
Euthanasia is different from assisted suicide, in that assisted suicide involves the person ending their own life administering a lethal dose themselves, whereas euthanasia usually involves a health practitioner administering a lethal dose.
Assisted suicide is legal in a handful of jurisdictions globally including Holland, Belgium, Canada, Colombia and Luxembourg.
Right To Life UK campaigns against any attempt to legalise such euthanasia, and for the development of palliative care services and end of life care that remove any perceived need for euthanasia.
Doctors in Canada propose euthanasia for babies with disabilities
Doctors in Canada have said euthanasia for newborn babies who are born with disabilities "may be an appropriate treatment", as concerns grow about the expansion of Canada’s euthanasia and assisted suicide programme. Speaking on behalf of the Quebec College of...
Canadian MP launches campaign to block expansion of euthanasia and assisted suicide to people with mental illness
An MP in Canada has announced a campaign to prevent assisted suicide and euthanasia being permitted on the grounds of mental illness alone. Euthanasia was first legalised in Canada in 2016. In December 2022, the Government announced their plan to introduce legislation...
Assisted suicide and euthanasia in Canada is “a system of structural abandonment”, insiders say
Canada’s euthanasia and assisted suicide programme has created “a system of structural abandonment” where loved ones are dying because of “unmet medical or social needs”, according to two members of the Chief Coroner of Ontario’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD)...
New Zealand: 37% surge in euthanasia and assisted suicide deaths in one year
In New Zealand, cases of euthanasia and assisted suicide have increased by 37.21% for the year April 2024 to March 2025 compared with the same period the previous year, according to data released by the New Zealand Ministry of Health. There were a total of 472 cases...
Former NZ MP urges UK Parliament to reject flawed assisted suicide Bill
A former MP from New Zealand has spoken out against legalising assisted suicide in England and Wales based on his own country’s experience, saying that safeguards which were promised are “so rarely effective”. As Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life)...
Concerns mount as Washington abandons important annual assisted suicide report
Concerns have been raised that vital data on the dangers of assisted suicide will be hidden following a decision by the Washington State Department of Health to discontinue its annual statistical report. Assisted suicide was legalised in Washington in November...