Although Portugal and the United Kingdom have a long history of public debate on euthanasia, there is no knowledge about the role of journalistic mediation in the Portuguese context, and the studies on the British media were conducted before 2011. On the other hand, some studies suggest that the news media frame the dying body in the subject of euthanasia as a horrible, intractable, and intolerable bodily state. Theoretically, the two papers from the Aversion2agony project's first study are based on the mediation of death from a socio-constructivist perspective and the domestication of the media and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). The first paper identifies the similarities and differences that characterise news coverage of euthanasia between 2016 and 2024 in Portugal and the United Kingdom. It analyses 1731 journalistic texts published on the digital platforms of the newspapers Expresso, Público, The Guardian, and The Telegraph. The second paper explores the framing of the dying body and its organic dysfunction in the terminal phase or at the end of life within the euthanasia debate in Portugal and the United Kingdom. Empirically, 72 journalistic texts on euthanasia containing references to organ dysfunction caused by terminal or end-of-life illnesses are analysed.

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