Spain Extends Euthanasia Law To Include the Mentally Ill
The Sánchez government will change its assisted suicide guidelines, going against a Constitutional Court ruling.
The Sánchez government will change its assisted suicide guidelines, going against a Constitutional Court ruling.
A new report makes clear what campaigners say we all knew already.
A now-delayed expansion would have increased euthanasia numbers dramatically.
Migrants presenting a danger to Italian society will be expelled quickly under the new program.
The 35-year-old male perpetrator, a former member of the Jehovah’s Witnesses community, is believed to have been struggling with mental issues.
Conservative MP Michael Cooper called for the “dangerous” provision to be “scrapped,” since “irremediability cannot be determined for mental illness.”
The rise of videos celebrating and glamourizing mental illness is one of the alarming consequences of our ‘post-truth’ culture.
Three rampages by mentally ill people over the course of 48 hours shocked Germany last month, but the lax treatment of even the clinically psychotic may be symptomatic of a deeper societal crisis.
The 22-year-old shooter is known to the mental-health system. He tried, unsuccessfully, to contact a crisis line shortly before the shooting.
The latest figures, published at the beginning of March by Germany’s third-largest statutory health insurer, DAK-Gesundheit, show that absence from work due to mental illness reached a record high in 2021.
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