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"Nazi legislation and Hitler's ideas are reemerging in Europe via Dutch euthanasia laws and the debate on how to kill ill children." ... Carlo Giovanardi. Italian Parliamentary Affairs minister, March 2006.

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The World

Places Where Euthanasia is Legal (2010)
Six Countries, Six Defeats for Euthanasia (2011)

Council of Europe/UN
Council of Europe Adopts Resolution Against Euthanasia (2012)
Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly Rejects Euthanasia (2005)
United Nations Considers Euthanasia and New Treaty on Aging (2005)

Australia
Australian PM Cold to Legalizing Euthanasia (2011)
Another euthanasia bill rejected in South Australia (2010)
South Australia Euthanasia Bill Defeated (2010)
Euthanasia Could Be Forced on Patients: MP (2010)
Assisted Suicide Promoter Preys on Fearful and Abandoned, Opponent Says (2010)
Euthanasia Bill Introduced in Tasmanian Parliament (2009)
Melbourne Doctor: Most Donors Still Alive when Organs are Removed (2008)
Euthanasia Provider to Alzheimer's Patients: The Best Remedy is Death (2008)
Australian Prime Minister Explains Why He Opposes Euthanasia (2008)
Australian State and Territorial Governments to Introduce Euthanasia Bills this Year (2008)
Suicide Techniques Demonstrated at Conference with Humor (2005)
Status of Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in Australia as of April, 2005
Euthanasia Advocate Who Committed Suicide was Cancer-Free (2004)
Australia Cases (2003)
Palliative Care in Australia
Overview of Law in Australian States and Territories
Australian "Dr. Death" Creates New "Death Machine" (2003)
Australia's Euthanasia Law
Plan For Death Boat (2001)
When Euthanasia Was Legalized In The Northern Territory (1996)
Report on Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide by the Southern Cross Bioethics Institute [PDF file] (2002) - Scroll to Australia section.

Austria
Austria to Exhume Hundreds of Bodies in Nazi Euthanasia Probe (2011)

Belgium
Belgian Transplant Surgeons Use Lungs From Euthanased Patients (2011)
Life by Euthanasia (2011)
Shock study: Organs Harvested From Euthanized Patients Make Better Transplants? (2011)
Culture of Death: Elderly Belgian Couple Euthanized Together (2011)
Belgian Doctors Harvesting Organs From Disabled Euthanasia Donors (2011)
Doctors Harvesting Organs From Disabled Euthanasia Donors (2011)
Euthanasia and Organ Donation in Belgium (2011)
Belgian Euthanasia Nurses 'Fail to Get Consent' (2010)
Study: Over 30% of Euthanasia Cases in Belgian Region Did Not Give Consent (2010)
The Gruesome Aftermath of Legalized Euthanasia in Belgium (2009)
Belgium to Consider Legalizing Under-18 Euthanasia (2006)
Euthanasia Rates Double in Belgium (2006)
Belgian Pharmacists Given Green Light (2005)
Status of Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in the Belgium as of April, 2005
250 Belgian Pharmacies Offer Euthanasia Kits (2005)
Euthanasia Rates Escalating: Kills One a Day in Belgium (2005)
Belgium Since Euthanasia Legalization (2004)
Belgium: Current Actions (December 2003)
Belgium: Maybe 1,000 Euthanasia Deaths in Last Year (December 2003)
Euthanasia Proposed for Children (June 2003)
Lawmakers Propose Euthanasia for Children (June 2003)
Belgium Hospitals Being Forced to Provide Euthanasia (June 2003)
Belgium Euthanasia Law Takes Effect (September 2002)
Euthanasia Legalized in Belgium (May 2002)
Report on Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide by the Southern Cross Bioethics Institute [PDF file] (2002) - Scroll to Belgium section.

Brazil
Need to Lobby against Infanticide in Brazil (2009)
Poll: Most Brazilians Reject Euthanasia (2007)

Britain
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Canada
One Minute Video on What Euthanasia Would Mean for Canada (2012)
Doctor-Assisted Suicide is Dangerous for Us All (2011)
Legalizing Assisted Suicide "A Recipe for Elder Abuse," Say Protesters (2011)
No Jail Time for Woman Who Strangled Newborn (2011)
"Judge Literally Uses Abortion as an Excuse for Infanticide" (2011)
Canadian Justice Minister: Government Won’t Reopen Euthanasia Issue (2011)
Vancouver: Symposium Focuses on Building Euthanasia Opposition (2011)
Suicide of 18-year-old student at Carleton University (2011)
Abuse Of Assisted Suicide Laws "Inevitable," Expert Warns Quebec Government (2011)
El abuso de las leyes de suicidio asistido es “inevitable”, advierte experto al gobierno de Quebec (2011)
Euthanasia Debate To Launch In Canada As Man Admits To Euthanizing His Ill Wife (2011)
Fr. Pavone, the "Terri Schiavo Priest", Will Pay To Bring Baby Joseph To U.S. (2011)
"Save Baby Joseph" Facebook Page (2011)
No Regrets for Killing Daughter: Latimer (2011)
Media Criticized for Suggesting Double Murder is Possible ‘Mercy Killing’ (2011)
A Crisis in Dying (2010)
Poll: Canadians Moving Away From Support for Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia (2010)
Vivre dans la Dignité (2010)
Living With Dignity Web Site (2010)
Euthanasia Bill Defeated in Canada 228 - 59 (2010)
Ozzy Osbourne Finds Musical Muse in Canada ‘Mercy-Killing’ (2010)
Canadian Bill C-384 "Directly Threatens the Lives of People with Disabilities and Other Vulnerable Groups" (2010)
Canadian Suicide Bill Would Give Doctors a Licence to Kill (2010)
Efforts To Legalize Assisted Suicide in Canada (2009)
Legalized Euthanasia Leads to No Choice -- Ever (2009)
MP Introduces Euthanasia Bill into Canadian Parliament (2009)
Canada Just Became Scarier For the Disabled (2008)
Golubchuk Injunction Upheld - Winnipeg Hospital Ordered to Keep Patient on Life Support (2008)
Latimer Release after Seven Years for Killing Disabled Daughter "A Tragedy" (2008)
Canada's Robert Latimer Denied Parole (2007)
Canadian Television Runs Programs Strongly Biased in Favour of Assisted Suicide (2007)
Euthanasia Video, Turning the Tide, Incredibly Well Received (2007)
Study of 379 Canadians Receiving Palliative Care (2007)
Quebec Case of Assisted Suicide Being Used by Media to Push for Legalization of Euthanasia (2007)
CCCB Leaflet on Value of Suffering, Palliative Care Counters Push for Euthanasia (2007)
Conference Reveals: Keys to Right to Die Strategy (2006)
Canadian MP Again Seeks to Legalize Assisted Suicide (2006)
Canada MPs Want Parliament to Debate Bill Legalizing Assisted Suicide (2006)
Canada Euthanasia Bill Bill C-407 (2005)
Parliment Member Speaks Against Euthanasia Bill (2005)
100 Doctors and Lawyers Warn Canada's Parliament Against Assisted Suicide Bill (2005)
Canadian Bishops Warn MPs over Euthanasia Bill - "Most Extreme Human Abuse Possible" (2005)
Leaked Internal Memo to MPs Reveals Justice Minister Opposes Assisted Suicide Bill (2005)
Organ “Harvesting” Policy in Canada (2005)
Police Recommend Charges in Quebec Attempted Murder/Euthanasia Case (2005)
A Bill to Legalize Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide (2005)
Assisted Suicide Legalization Looming (2005)
Euthanasia Movement in Canada More Radical than UK Counterpart (2004)
Poll: Support for Assisted Suicide Declining (2003)
de Compassionate Healthcare Network (Français)
Canada Cases (2003)
Canada Supreme Court Sends "Mercy Killer" to Jail (2001)
Euthanasia for Individuals with Disabilities (1998)
Canadian Polls and Television Programs (2000)
British Columbia Euthanasia Poll (1997)
Canada vs. Euthanasia: A Brief to Members of Parliament (1998)
Grant to Canadian Pro-Euthanasia Group (2003)
Twelve Problems With Assisted Suicide

Czech Republic
Proposal to Legalise Euthanasia (2008)
Czech Citizen Undergoes Euthanasia in Switzerland (2007)
Article on Euthanasia was Dropped from the Government's New Draft Penal Code (2007)
Poll: Czech Majority Agrees with Euthanasia (2007)

Columbia
Bill Meant to Legalize Euthanasia in Colombia Dies (2007)
Report on Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide by the Southern Cross Bioethics Institute [PDF file] (2002) - Scroll to Columbia section.
Colombia's Highest Court Sanctions Euthanasia

France
Deaths Reignite Euthanasia Debate (2011)
French Senate Votes Down Assisted Suicide Bill (2011)
Media Distorts New Medical "Hard Case" to Promote Assisted Suicide in France (2008)
Euthanasia Opponent Nicholas Sarkozy Elected President (2007)
Paris: Archbishop and Rabbi Join to Oppose Euthanasia (2007)
Doctor Convicted but Euthanasia Pushed (2007)
French Euthanasia Trial Begins as Practice Spreads Across Europe (2007)
French Nurse Sentenced to Ten Years (2003)

Germany
Germany’s New Doctor of Death (2008)
German Candidate Pushes Suicide Device for Hamburg Elderly (2007)
Euthanasia Activists Attack the Catholic Church (2007)
German Politician Pushes Euthanasia Machine (2007)
Investigation After Doctor Kills Healthy Patient (2005)

Great Britain
Four Patients Die Thirsty or Starving EVERY DAY On Our Hospital Wards (2012)
Some UK Experts: No Cancer Drugs if it's Just to Extend life (2011)
Dozens of Assisted Suicides Ignored After UK Rules Change (2011)
"Allowed to Die" - a Quick Lesson in Media Manipulation (2011)
Dangers of "Copycat Suicide" (2011)
Allowing Assisted Suicide Would "Pressurise Disabled to Kill Themselves" (2011)
Legalising Assisted Suicide Would Lead to Death on Prescription (2011)
UK Marketing Assisted Suicide Educational Videos for Children (2011)
Leading Anti-Euthanasia Campaigner Gives Series of Talks (2011)
Unofficial Euthanasia Is Practiced In The UK: Dr. Clare Walker (2011)
UK Doctors Consistently Oppose Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide (2011)
Video: The Problems with Assisted Suicide
Venue Cancels Nitschke Suicide Workshop in UK (2011)
Britain Activists Promote Assisted Suicide, Bash Disabled (2011)
Scottish Euthanasia Bill Rejected Overwhelmingly by Committee (2010)
Human Life Itself has No Value: Britain’s Leading Bioethicist and Assisted Suicide Campaigner (2010)
Scots End–of-life Bill Could Lead to 1,000 Deaths a Year (2010)
UK Columnist Advocates Smothering Disabled Baby (2010)
Religious Doctors Less Likely to Kill Patients With Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide (2010)
Scots Oppose Euthanasia Law (2010)
Tory MP Moves to Bolster Law Against "Back Door Euthanasia" (2009)
Involuntary Snuffing Out of Life Will be Promoted as the State Seeks New Ways to Cut Expenses (2009)
Assisted Suicide Amendment Defeated in House of Lords (2009)
British Medical Association Reaffirms Opposition To Assisted Suicide (2009)
Scottish Council on Human Bioethics: Assisted Suicide Unnecessary and Dangerous (2009)
Baroness Finlay of Llandaff: The Dangers of Assisted Suicide (2009)
UK Doctors Oppose the Legalization of Euthanasia (2009)
Scotland: Legalising Euthanasia Needs Careful Thought (2008)
Scottish MP Pushes Assisted Suicide Bill that Includes Right to Die for Children (2008)
An Open Letter to Baroness Warnock on Assisted Suicide (2008)
Assisted Suicide Gains Ground in British Courts (2008)
Suicide Friendly TV From the BBC (2007)
Patients' "Living Wills" Will Give Legal "Right to Die" (2007)
Doctor Investigated for Hastening the Death of Two Terminally Ill Babies (2007)
Assisted Suicide in Final Harry Potter Book (2007)
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Forbids Disabled Person to Present Petition on Infanticide (2007)
Woman with Terminal Disease Demands Doctors Euthanize Her (2007)
Doctors Face Prison for Denying Right to Die (2006)
Church of England Does Not Support Infant Euthanasia (2006)
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecology to Debate Killing Babies (Is there a difference between withdrawing treatment and actively killing a baby?) (2006)
Feedback on Royal College's Debate Proposal (2006)
Details of Vote by the British Medical Association (2006)
UK Doctors Vote Against Euthanasia (2006)
Doctors in Revolt Over New Euthanasia Policy (2006)
Opposition to House of Lords’ Assisted Suicide Bill (2006)
Archbishop of Westminster, Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations Sign Joint Letter Against Assisted Suicide Bill (2006)
British Ob/Gyns Call Premature Newborns “Bed Blockers” (2006)
"Care Not Killing" alliance Launched
Care Not Killing Website
British Doctors Use Euthanasia to Kill Nearly 3,000 Patients (2006)
Cardinal Speaks Out Against Bill on Assisted Dying (2005)
Religious Leaders Lobby British Parliament Against Euthanasia (2005)
Man Loses 'Right to Life' Court Battle (2005)
British Medical Association Takes Neutral Stance (2005)
British Doctors Discuss Euthanasia (2005)
British Public Favors Right to Live in Euthanasia Cases (2005)
Anglican Church Leader Rowan Williams Says Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide Unacceptable (2005)
Baroness Says Elderly and Ill have Obligation to Suicide (2004)
Anglicans and Catholics Join Forces to Fight Euthanasia in Britain (2004)
Royal College of Nursing Against Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide (2004)
Poll Used to Promote Assisted Suicide Bill Questioned (2004)
British Hospitals Hastening the Deaths of Elderly Patients? (2004)
Euthanasia Movement in Canada More Radical than UK Counterpart (2004)
Suing for the Right to Live: Futile Care Theory Comes to America (2004)
Government Adviser: Killing Children with Defects Acceptable (2004)
British Government Moving Toward Euthanasia of Mentally Handicapped (2003)
Mental Incapacity Bill: Euthanasia by Neglect, Exposing the Government’s Trojan Horse of Death (2003)
Euthanasia Bill to be Presented to Parliament (2003)
British Couple's Swiss Assisted Suicide May Be Illegal (2003)
60% of UK Doctors Polled Oppose Euthanasia (2003)
Euthanasia Risk in Great Britain (1998)
Euthanasia Movement in Great Britain (1997)
British Parliament Rejects Assisted Suicide Bill (1999)
Isle of Man in Euthanasia Bid (2003)
UK Couple Die at Suicide Clinic (2003)
Problems with Polls (1994)
Report on Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide by the Southern Cross Bioethics Institute [PDF file] (2002) - Scroll to Great Britain section.

Hungary
Hungary Court Rejects Legalization of Euthanasia (2003)

India
KEM Nurses Hail Supreme Court Order on Aruna Shanbaug (2011)
Indian Hospital Defends Disabled Woman Against Author’s Call for Euthanasia (2011)
Former Euthanasia Petitioner Now Says "Don't Give Up On Life", as Surgery Brings New Hope (2008)
Bill to Legalize Euthanasia Introduced to Indian Legislature (2007)
Government Says No to Legalising Euthanasia (2006)

Ireland
Doctors Pushed Paralyzed Irish Man to Refuse Ventilator and Die (2011)
Dublin Suicide ‘Workshop’ Has Twice as Many Protesters as Attendees (2011)
Irish Protestors Shut Down Speech that Was Scheduled Without Response (2009)
Anger Over Euthanasia Speech Amid Health Cuts (2009)
Ireland's First Known Assisted Suicide (2007)
Trinity College Debate on Euthanasia (2006)

Israel
Euthanasia: The Approach of the Courts in Israel and the Application of Jewish Law Principles (2003)
Israeli Doctor Denies Performing Active Euthanasia

Italy
Italian Man Goes to Prison for Euthanizing His 91-year-old Mother (2011)
Conference Against Euthanasia Remembers Eluana Englaro (2011)
"Eluana Did Not Die a Natural Death; She was Killed" (2009)
Italy's "Terri Schiavo" Dies Suddenly (2009)
Eluana Englaro Dies at Hospital in Italy (2009)
Bill to Save Eluana Moves into the Senate (2009)
Italy's Prime Minister Seeks Law to Stop Death of Comatose Woman (2009)
Removal of Food and Hydration from Italian Woman “Monstrous and Inhuman Murder” (2008)
Italian Doctors Issue Call to Treat Newborns that Survive Abortion (2008)
Doctor Who Charged Pope Violated Teaching Against Euthanasia Had No Access to Medical Records (2007)
More on the Pope/Euthanasia Story (2007)
Funeral of Pro-Euthanasia Campaigner (2006)
Push for Euthanasia (2006)
Support for Those in a Vegetative State (2005)
Italian Minister of Health Says Euthanasia is Not an "Act of Love" (October 2003)

Japan
Report on Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide by the Southern Cross Bioethics Institute [PDF file] (2002) - Scroll to Japan section.

Kenya
Assisted Suicide in Kenya? (2008)

Luxembourg
Luxembourg Guidelines for Palliative Care Include Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia (2009)
Luxembourg, the Land without a Conscience (2009)
Luxembourg Legalizes Euthanasia (2009)
Pope Decries Euthanasia as "Evil" as Luxembourg Parliament Advances with Assisted Suicide Legalization (2008)
Luxembourg's Grand Duke Henri Would Not Sign Euthanasia Law (2008)
Pope Tells Luxembourg to Defend Life (2008)
Luxembourg Parliament Adopts Euthanasia Law (2008)

Mexico
Archbishop Warns Faithful About Dangers of "Living Wills" (2010)
Socialists in Mexico Seeking to Legalize Euthanasia (2007)

Netherlands
Euthanasia for Babies: "the lives of babies are in danger" (2005)
Status of Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in the Netherlands as of April, 2005
Euthanasie (in Dutch)
Dutch Doctors Admit to Euthanizing Babies (2004)
Catholic Doctors Criticize Nonconsensual Euthanasia of Children in Holland (2004)
Expanding the Categories of Killable People
More Netherlands Articles

New Zealand
Promotion of Suicide on Television in New Zealand (2010)
New Zealand Medical Association Maintains Opposition to Euthanasia (2005)
Dr. John Monro Article on Euthanasia (2005)
Euthanasia Rampant in New Zealand (2004)
Euthanasia Articles (Right to Life New Zealand site) (2004)
Euthanasia Bill (2003)
Opinion on Proposed New Zealand Euthanasia Bill (2003)
Hospice Care the Answer, Meeting Told (2003)

Norway
Attitudes and Practice Among Norwegian Physicians (1997)

Philippines
Pro-Life Philippines Foundation (2007)

Poland
52% Support Constitutional Amendment Banning Euthanasia (2007)

Russia
Russian Delegates to PACE Oppose Legalization of Euthanasia (2005)

Slovakia
Euthanasia Article on Slovak Radio (2003)

South Africa
http://www.eyewitnessnews.co.za/articleprog.aspx?id=55558">Mercy Killing Accused Calls For Legalised Euthanasia in South Africa (2010)

South Korea
South Korea Did Not Legalize Euthanasia (2010)

Spain
Withdrawing Feeding Tube from Comatose Woman is "Euthanasia": Spanish Bishop (2011)
Spanish Language Site on Euthanasia (2003)

Sweden
Study: Jurors More Supportive of Euthanasia on Opposite Gender Patients (2003)

Switzerland
Saccharine Portrayal of Assisted Suicide (2011)
Assisted Suicide for Couples Promoted (2010)
Let Family Members of Suicides Kill Themselves Too Says Euthanasia Organization President (2010)
300 Urns of Human Remains Found at Bottom of Lake Zurich (2010)
A Double Suicide in Switzerland (2009)
Right-to-Die Group Barred from Premises (2007)
Swiss Suicide Clinics 'helping depressives die' (2007)
Swiss High Court: Mentally Ill have a Right to Assisted Suicide (2007)
Woman Suffers Painful Death at Zurich Suicide Facility (2007)
A Grisly Theatre of Death (2006)
Chain of "Suicide Clinics" Sought (2006)
Assisted Suicides in Apartment Building: "It's very creepy" (2006)
Swiss Won't Tighten Assisted Suicide Law (2006)
Swiss Hospital Agrees to Help Kill Patients as of January 1, 2006
Status of Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in Switzerland as of April, 2005
Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences Open to Euthanasia (2004)
Switzerland: Current Actions (December 2003)
Suicide clinic Investigated (2003)

UK
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US
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Bioethicists Suggest Killing Someone With ‘No Autonomy Left’ Is Not Morally Wrong (2012)

Nazi Germany
Nazi Extermination of Thousands of Disabled Children Featured in New Berlin Museum Exhibit (2012)
Austria to Exhume Bodies in Nazi Euthanasia Probe (2011)
Exhibit Explores Scientists’ Role in Holocaust (2010)
Video: The Nazi Euthanasia Program (1 of 5) Length: 9:18
Video: The Nazi Euthanasia Program (2 of 5) Length: 9:53
Video: The Nazi Euthanasia Program (3 of 5) Length: 10:22
Video: The Nazi Euthanasia Program (4 of 5) Length: 9:49
Video: The Nazi Euthanasia Program (5 of 5) Length: 2:56
Ethicist Explores Nazi Medical Abuses
Persecution of People with Disabilities in Nazi Germany (Regent University)
Articles: Nurses in Nazi Germany's Euthanasia Programs (1999-2007)
Nurses' Participation in the Nazi Euthanasia Programs
Grave of Nazi Euthanasia Victims Discovered in Germany (2006)
Article: “Useless Eaters: Disability as a Genocidal Marker in Nazi Germany” by Mark P. Mostert, PhD (2002)
Language Games of Nazi Doctors and Implications for the Modern Euthanasia Movement.
German Euthanasia Program
Site of the Nazi Euthanasia Program, Aktion T4, in Berlin, Germany
German Euthanasia Program (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website)
Nazi Euthanasia Child Victims
Nazi Euthanasia
Hitler's 1939 Decree - Photograph

"Experience in The Netherlands, where there has been relatively little effort to improve pain and symptom treatment, suggests that legalization of physician-assisted suicide might weaken society's resolve to expand services and resources aimed at caring for the dying patient. (Foley, 1995; Hendin, 1994)" ... from "Treatment of Pain at the End of Life: A Position Statement from the American Pain Society."

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