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Dutch to Allow Children Option of Euthanasia: A Slippery Slope?

Ernst Kuipers, the Dutch health minister, recently announced that regulations were being modified to allow doctors to apply euthanasia to children aged one to 12 years who were terminally ill and suffering unbearably. By Dominic Wilkinson Previously, assisted dying was an...

Campaign Against Trade in Wild Animals Launched in Greece

A campaign against the trade in wild animals has been launched in Greece following the death of a rare white tiger cub earlier in the week. Hasija, the female cub, was euthanized on Monday after experts deemed that the animal...

Rare White Tiger Cub Euthanatized in Greece

A rare white tiger cub that was left abandoned, hiding under the bins in the town of Spata, Greece, in February was euthanized on Monday. The cub was found under a garbage bin outside the Attica Zoological Park, east of...

Tiger Cub Abandoned Outside Greek Zoo to be Euthanized

A team of vets decided to euthanize a rare white tiger cub found under a garbage bin outside the Attica Zoological Park in February. Jean-Jacques Lesueur, the founder of the zoo, where the white tiger is housed, explained that the...

Greek-Australian Minister Hails Legalization of Euthanasia in Victoria

"We're on the right side of history," Victoria's Health Minister Jenny Mikakos said on Wednesday as her state became the first in Australia to legalize euthanasia. The state's historic voluntary assisted dying laws will allow terminally ill adults who have...

Greek Police and District Attorney Decide Exhumation of Journalist Who Ended His Life

Athens District Attorney Elias Zagoraios and the Crime Department of the Greek Police decided to exhume the body of journalist Alexandros Velios who ended his life with non-assisted euthanasia and made his decision public in social media. On September 4,...

Prosecutor Probes Vellios' Death: Was it Euthanasia or Suicide?

An investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of journalist Alexandros Vellios has begun following suspicion that he may have been helped into taking his own life. The journalist, who championed the cause of euthanasia during his long battle...

Greek Journalist Chooses Non-Assisted Euthanasia After Battle With Cancer

Greek journalist Alexandros Velios put an end to his life with non-assisted euthanasia after a battle with cancer, leaving a 'suicide note' on his social media page. Earlier this summer, Velios stated publicly that he only has a few months to...

Greek Journalist Writes Book and Books Tickets for Euthanasia in Switzerland

Greek journalist Alexandros Vellios confessed that he has just a few months to live and wrote a book about his personal battle with cancer, titled "My Death and I - Right to Euthanasia." The writer says that while writing...

Greek Farmer Asks for Euthanasia Because of Debts

A 70-year-old farmer made a euthanasia request because he owes millions of euros to the state and he has no money to live on. According to a Star Central Greece report, the man who lives in the Ekkara village of...