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Lords bill is a ‘blank cheque’

Lord Falconer's 'Assisted Dying' Bill is 'asking Parliament to sign a blank cheque' say peers

Falconer: doctors above the law?

Lord Falconer reveals that his 'Assisted Dying' Bill effectively places doctors above the law

Court victories in Canada

Two huge court victories in British Columbia and Ontario thwart legalisation of euthanasia in Canada

Tasmania rejects euthanasia bill

Bill to legalise euthanasia and assisted suicide defeated in the Australian state's legislature

NZ euthanasia bill withdrawn

MP withdraws euthanasia bill after pressure from Labour Party colleagues

Dutch euthanasia up 13% in 2012

Euthanasia deaths continue their relentless rise in the Netherlands

LCP: new leadership alliance

Next steps for the Liverpool Care Pathway now clearer with the setting up of new leadership alliance

Soaps and assisted suicide

Coronation Street must handle assisted suicide story with great sensitivity and care

Stephen Hawking

A great scientist - but his advice on decriminalising assisted suicide should be given short shrift

Public policy meets… cricket

Jonathan Agnew should stick to cricket rather than pontificating about serious matters of public policy

NZ euthanasia bill ‘wide-open’…

... and open to being wider, says bill's author

Police make arrests in Sussex

Chichester case should serve as a reminder of why assisted suicide is against the law

Washington overtakes Oregon

Assisted suicide deaths increase by 17% in one year in Washington State

French euthanasia law coming

National ethics committee rejects euthanasia but President Hollande pledges a law by the end of the year.

Importing death?

The question that the police have not asked and Nitschke has not answered

‘Dr Death’ comes to the UK

Should the Home Secretary have let this man in?

Escalation of child euthanasia

In this last week both Belgium and the Netherlands have taken further major steps regarding euthanasia for children.

Lord Falconer to table latest assisted suicide bill on May 15

Don't be fooled by peer's 'modest' assisted suicide proposals