Nikki Kenward, who lived with the MND-like symptoms of Guillain-Barre Syndrome, writes: 'this is not civilization but barbarity... We need more legal restraints, not fewer.'
The issue of withdrawing food and fluids from brain damaged patients is complex and little understood - Care Not Killing was on hand to outline concerns with the Supreme Court's ruling on a busy media day
Efforts to distinguish between terminally ill and non-terminally ill people when it comes to suicidal tendencies are at best meaningless and at worst offensive
The three judges who heard Noel Conway's Appeal in May 2018 referred to evidence and submissions put forward by Care Not Killing a number of times in their June judgment
'We do not consider that the approach or those conclusions of the Divisional Court can be faulted... [and so] we dismiss both the appeal and the respondent's notice'
A new report from Quebec picks up a recurring theme of patients being driven towards assisted suicide and euthanasia - now 'healthcare' - by a failure to provide wanted care and treatment
Portugal follows Finland, Guernsey and California in encouraging May pushbacks against euthanasia and assisted suicide - but a new bill looms in Dublin
Between the Court of Appeal, impassioned legislative debate in Guernsey and a 104-year old travelling to Switzerland for assisted suicide, there's been much to comment on in May - and CNK's responses have been front and centre.
Deputies of the States of Deliberation in St Peter Port vote 24-14 against assisted suicide, and 37-1 in favour of a review of palliative and end of life care
A 104-year old assisted suicide advocate travels from Australia to Switzerland for assisted suicide, saying 'I've lived quite a good life until recently. The last year has been less satisfactory for me because I couldn't do things.'
Guernsey's Policy and Resources Committee, the senior governmental body, and the Guernsey Disability Alliance have both stated their opposition to assisted suicide and euthanasia proposals ahead of a 16 May vote
