A terminally ill Frenchman who went on two hunger strikes last year to protest laws prohibiting euthanasia has died in a physician-assisted suicide in Switzerland, close friends and family said Tuesday. “I wish to inform you of my dignified death, carried out as part of an assisted-suicide procedure,” 58-year-old Alain Cocq wrote in an open […]
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French doctor loses European appeal over euthanasia
The European Court of Human Rights said Thursday that it had rejected an appeal by a French doctor to be reinstated after he was barred from practising for killing terminally-ill patients, a crime for which he was convicted in 2015. An appeals court handed Nicolas Bonnemaison a suspended two-year sentence for deliberately poisoning an 86-year-old […]
The emerging debate on euthanasia
Euthanasia is hailed as mercy killing or assisted suicide. The act of euthanasia propagates that when a person is suffering from an incurable disease, he is assisted to death. Such act lingers in the belief that the patient, no more, can bear the pain. The proponents of euthanasia linger on the side that it is […]