At the request of the French Senate information mission on the end of life, Alliance VITA was auditioned on Wednesday 22nd March 2023 at the Luxembourg Palace.
20 years after the adoption of the law legalising euthanasia in Belgium, two new painful cases of euthanasia for psychiatric reasons are being widely publicised in the media. Once again, they corroborate, the abuse of euthanasia in that State.
Following a presentation on discernment and psychiatric disorders, the Citizens' Convention on the end of life continued its work during this 7th session from 3rd to 5th March.
On 2nd February 2023 the Canadian government tabled a bill to defer by one year the authorisation of euthanasia and assisted suicide for those people whose only medical problem is mental illness.