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Belgium: Bioethics Advisory Committee in favour of extending advance euthanasia declarations to persons who have become incapable of deciding for themselves
What suicide prevention policy should be adopted in a country that allows euthanasia for depression?
ECHR condemns Poland: delayed publication of a ruling restricting access to abortion undermined legal certainty
Slovenia backtracks on assisted suicide: what arguments won the day in the referendum?
“Death with dignity” bill in Uruguay: euthanasia could be ob-tained in just a few days
Euthanasia and assisted suicide: what does really distinguish these two practices of planned death?
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