Private Member’s Bill would allow assisted suicide or euthanasia for anyone with a ‘terminal illness’, without specifying a required prognosis, and requires doctors to facilitate requests.
Reaction to the first public comments of a Dutch doctor cleared of murder after sedating, restraining and administering euthanasia to a patient with dementia.
Lord Chancellor Robert Buckland renews commitment given to Care Not Killing, reiterating that the law on assisted suicide is a matter for Parliament, not Government policy or the courts.
Assisted suicide advocates who've said their approach would 'save money in the long-term' are promoting 'all-or-nothing' advance decisions in the context of coronavirus, with little encouragement 'to consider the likely benefits and burdens of different treatments.'
Senior healthcare professionals and rights campaigners denounce inappropriate and even 'discriminatory' misapplications of an ordinarily valuable clinical tool, as the country grapples with Covid-19.
Recent reports from Canada reveal a worrying trend of doctors being pressurised and bullied into participating in Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD, the Canadian euthanasia programme).
Further details of the Royal College of General Practitioners' consultation of members in 2019 show that those whose votes kept the College opposed did so because of the risk to vulnerable patients.
The American state's assisted suicide law, which demands prognoses of six months or less, sees patients live for more than four years between request and death, with 'terminal diseases' including 'complications from a fall'
The BMA defines 'physician-assisted dying' as covering both assisted suicide and euthanasia. What would neutrality really mean, and why should members remain opposed?
With another bid to legalise assisted suicide expected in the next Parliament, it is imperative that voters and candidates address protection for vulnerable people at the end of life
Days before the administration he serves in comes to an end, pro-assisted suicide Justice Secretary David Gauke makes a 'call for evidence' concerning a possible change in the law
