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Could Almodóvar's 'pro-euthanasia' film lead to legislative change?

Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar won the Golden Lion at this year's Venice Film Festival for his first English-language feature 'The Room Next Door'. The film deals with a topic that is still taboo for many: euthanasia. Can the film - or any film - engender changes to policy?

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Venice 2024: 'The Room Next Door' - Almodóvar takes on life and death

Almodóvar's first English-language feature film is a powerful portrait of life, death and the unbreakable bonds that help us to navigate it all. At the same time, there's a sense some emotional authenticity got lost in translation.

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Venice 2024: Pedro Almodóvar's new film 'is in favour of euthanasia’

Returning to the Lido this year after 2021’s 'Parallel Mothers', Pedro Almodóvar's English-language debut stars Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore as two friends who confront life, death, and the controversial topic of euthanasia.

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'Massacre law': Activists up in arms over Turkey's new stray dog rules

Local mayors who do not enforce the law could be put in prison for two years.

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Healthcare

France marks shift towards assisted dying with new 'aid in dying' law

Emmanuel Macron has announced new legislation to legalise "aid in dying" that will allow adults facing end-of-life illness to take lethal medication.

Russia

Race to rescue stray dogs in Russia after new euthanasia law

Volunteers in Buryatia, near the Russia-Mongolia border, say they've rehomed some 600 animals to other regions.

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Has Belgium become a haven for people wanting to end their life?

While euthanasia is legal in Belgium, increasing numbers of patients from neighbouring countries, particularly France, are seeking to end their lives there.

World News

Portugal's parliament has passed a bill legalising euthanasia

Portugal's parliament has passed a bill legalising euthanasia after an intense debate including a veto by the country's president.

Earth News

Chimps still loose in Swedish zoo after escaping their enclosure

The zoo says three chimps had to be shot dead because they posed a threat to human safety.

Health news

Where in Europe is assisted dying legal?

Portugal's parliament has again voted to decriminalise euthanasia, and France is debating it. How do laws on assisted suicide compare across Europe?

France

France launches national debate on legalising euthanasia

The discussion could lead to a change in French law by the end of 2023.

Spain

Paralysed gunman dies after court allows his request for euthanasia

The man had begged for the right to die but victims of the shooting had argued that he should face justice.

Norway

Freya the walrus: Mischievous boat-sinker euthanised in Norway

A walrus called Freya that has been getting up to mischief in Oslo was euthanised by Norweigian authorities on Sunday.

Portugal

Portugal's parliament makes third attempt to legalise euthanasia

Previous bills to allow assisted suicide have been blocked by the country's Constitutional Court and President.

Belgium

'Right to die': Belgium marks two decades since legalising euthanasia

Twenty years ago, Belgium became only the second country in the world to legalise euthanasia. Today, more than a dozen European nations allow some form of it.

Italy

MPs in Italy back a new law that would legalise a form of euthanasia

The bill has been criticised by right-wing Italian MPs and will now go to the country's Senate.

Italy

Italy's Constitutional Court rejects referendum on euthanasia

A petition for a referendum on the right to die had collected more than 750,000 signatures last August, well above the threshold required to trigger a vote.

Austria

New law allowing assisted suicide comes into effect in Austria

Assisted suicide is legal in Switzerland and has been decriminalised in several European countries, including Spain, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

Austria

Austria to allow tightly limited right to assisted suicide

From next year, people who are chronically seriously ill or have no prospect of recovery will be able to state their will to die.

Health news

Assisted dying pod you can 3D print yourself approved in Switzerland

A review of the pod found no legal obstacles preventing its use in Switzerland, but critics fear its goal to "democratise" voluntary euthanasia with AI brings new risks.

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