In the country where the modern hospice movement began and where palliative care is concerned world-leading, services which alleviate suffering and safeguard dignity face challenges as never before
Former Supreme Court justice Lord Sumption questions basis of claimed public support for assisted suicide and says current legal protections are necessary to guard against abuse
Successive pieces of research demonstrate 'a lack of understanding that death can be 'gentle, peaceful and pain-free'' - but also that providers of good end of life care face mounting challenges
According to a specialty by specialty breakdown, the closer respondents to this year's Royal College of Physicians' consultation were to the care of dying people, the more likely they were to be opposed to assisted suicide
Dr Gordon Macdonald brings extensive experience of campaigning in the Scottish Parliament to a role created following the departure of Dr Peter Saunders
Expert report on complications in assisted suicide and euthanasia suggests that a relatively high incidence of vomiting, prolongation of death and reawakening from coma could render such deaths 'inhumane'
Assisted suicide numbers continue to rise in Oregon, with over half* citing fear of being a burden as a reason for ending their lives, as lawmakers consider widening eligibility
CNK Board member and former palliative care nurse Steve Fouch reflects on why a move to neutrality on assisted suicide by the Royal College of Physicians would be a grave error
The second instalment in Theroux's new series for the BBC, 'Altered States', is an interesting contribution to the debate on euthanasia and assisted suicide - but predictably was badly timed and badly formed
Canadian paediatricians envisage euthanasia for children without parental consent or even knowledge, ahead of a report to Parliament on extension to minors
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
