UK End‑of‑Life Policy Monitor

Bill C-41 was introduced on October 27, 2026 and would add new rules to a framework already in force.

• Current law: MAID requires a serious,...

• Patients must raise it first: Doctors cannot initiate talks about assisted dying, a safeguard meant to protect patients from medical influence.
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Once a bill passes second reading, it goes to a public bill committee, which usually starts with evidence before working through the text.

• Evidence...

The proposed MAID Safeguards Act would indefinitely exclude people whose sole underlying condition is mental illness, rather than proceeding with a...

Liz Carr frames euthanasia as an absurd, permanent threat over vulnerable moments, arguing laws must safeguard people "even from ourselves" regardless...

Jersey's Royal Assent for assisted dying creates political momentum that could prompt Guernsey debate next year, but does not alter Guernsey law...

Advance MAID requests in Quebec require patients to pre-specify clinical triggers such as failing to recognize loved ones or uncontrolled pain, yet...

The Liberal government will table a bill on Tuesday to permanently bar MAID for mental illness as the sole condition, replacing the current indefinite...

Umbria has become the fifth Italian region to regulate assisted suicide through local healthcare powers, underscoring how the absence of national...

Dame Esther Rantzen’s posthumous message frames her own experience of being deprived of choice over her death under current UK law as a personal...

Doctors on the Isle of Man are demanding stronger input into post-Royal Assent safeguards, citing deep clinical concerns that could directly influence...

Germany's new guideline gives health and social-care workers 45 recommendations for handling assisted-suicide requests.

• Core actions: Explore the...

Royal Assent on 16 October 2026 marks the legal milestone for the Isle of Man’s Assisted Dying Bill, but the law explicitly delays any service until...

Roger Foley's reported allegations that staff at London Health Sciences Centre repeatedly raised medical assistance in dying while he pursued...

A cross-sectional survey of Dutch adults who lost a relative to MAID is examining how experiences with psychiatric versus somatic cases shape...

ManxPACT stages a peaceful protest outside Tynwald today to press for stronger government action on suicide prevention, directly following the Social...

Canada's MAID regime expanded rapidly after 2016, removing the "reasonably foreseeable" death requirement in 2021.

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• Key development: Queensland Government declares “no changes” to VAD laws before commencing mandated statutory review.
• Policy snapshot: National...

Western Australia recorded a 243% rise in assisted deaths over four years, reaching 541 cases in 2025-26 and accounting for 2.9% of all deaths—the...

A Canadian woman’s approval for MAID after feeling she could no longer cook for her family and had lost value to them illustrates how perceived...