Latest news from Italy (Eurispes publication: Rapporta Italia 2012) 65,8% of the Italian are favorable to the biological will, v/s 30,9% being opposed. Thus showing this country is getting more independent from the doctrine of the Church.

Dear members,

Please make note that a RtD-Europe meeting will take place , at 6PM, on Thursday June 14th after the end of the WFRtDS program: It will be held in the same room facilities as the WFRtDS meeting and probably last about 90 minutes (so up to 7.30 p.m.).

Click here for the 2010 annual report of the five regional euthanasia review committees in the Netherlands. In the annual reports they account for the way in which they review cases on the basis of the Termination of Life on Request and Assisted Suicide (Review Procedures) Act. The report provides details of the number of notifications received, the nature of the cases reported, the committees’ findings and the considerations on which these were based.

Paris - saturday 24th march, 2012 : a large public meeting, organized by ADMD France, will take place in order to make public services and candidates to the presidential election sensitive to the wish of French citizens to have a law allowing for assistance in dying when a competent adult is terminally ill or severely disabled.

Following the letter sent to all European societies on 13th december 2011, we would like to remind you that the Right-to-Die Europe board is asking all member Societies to send news about their activities (such as conferences, anniversaries, national news...) . Editing will be subject to space considerations. Thank you.

At the end of January, various newspaper reports appeared that stated that the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe had just adopted an amendment, during a debate on living wills or advance directives, which said that "euthanasia, in the sense of the intentional killing by act or omission of a dependent human being for his or her alleged benefit must always be prohibited".

The End-of-life Care Research Group (from Universities of Ghent and VU Brussels) would like to invite you to the public seminar of the Alliance Research Group End-of-Life-Care on Wednesday December 14, 2011 from 4pm to 6pm, in the Auditorium TI, building K at the Jette campus of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Drs Leen Van Brussel and Prof. Dr. Jan Bernheim will be giving the following presentations:
“Media coverage of medical decision making at the end-of-life: explicit contents and underlying discourses” and “The Belgian model of end-of-life care”.

NVVE with ADMD-B and Leif organized a meeting in Brussels last week-end about differences and similarities in the legal situation in the BENELUX.
For instance, the principle differences between Leif and SCEN. Another topic: is it possible to get euthanasia or PAS with a living will of another BENELUX country than the one you live in? The BENELUX parliament now will look at all the comments and advices from this meeting.

Click to download the draft minutes of the RtDE conference in Mondorf, Luxembourg: