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Longer than expected

Where supposedly strictly defined assisted suicide laws are based on six month prognoses, we are every year reminded that these are arbitrary and (sometimes startlingly) unreliable

Conway: High Court case begins

A change in the law to allow assisted suicide is dangerous and unnecessary

General Election 2017

With a snap election set for 8 June and assisted suicide campaigners as eager as ever, Parliamentary candidates must be presented with the evidence and pressed for their views

Not Dead Yet to intervene in case

Disability rights activists have announced that, should it be given lead to proceed, they will intervene in a new bid for assisted suicide in the High Court

What to expect of 2017

Things have been quieter than usual on the end of life front in the UK since the overwhelming defeat of Rob Marris's and Patrick Harvie's assisted suicide bills in 2015 in the Westminster and Scottish Parliament's respectively. But there is new activity in the UK and plenty happening abroad. What can we expect this year?

New case to cover old ground

Assisted suicide advocates bring new attempt before the courts - a case built on legal ground already assessed and ruled on by the highest courts in the land

Quebec exceeds expectations

Officials in Quebec say the number of euthanasia deaths in the first seven months was almost three times their expectation

Colorado accepts assisted suicide

The 'Centennial State' becomes the sixth American jurisdiction to legislate for assisted suicide following a ballot initiative

DC chooses dangerous PAS pathway

America's autonomous capital district approves Oregon-style assisted suicide legislation

Stuck in the past?

All campaigning organisations have back-stocks of material to use up, but assisted suicide advocates' recent revival of an old publication raises some pointed questions

‘Old age rational suicide’

In the latest example of assisted suicide advocates softening their language, the Society for Old Age Rational Suicide becomes 'My Death, My Decision'

Dutch mull euthanasia extension

Dutch Government ministers have announced their intention to legislate for assisted suicide for 'people who regard their life as completed'

Chemo no, assisted suicide yes

Four months after assisted suicide became legal in California, patients are being told that treatment will no longer be funded - but assisted suicide will -as happened in Oregon

Swiss assisted suicides up 26%

Swiss authorities, publishing statistics for the first time since 2009, record 742 assisted suicides of Swiss residents in 2014

First minor euthanised in Belgium

The death of a 17 year old marks the first officially reported death of an under-18 since the country's law was amended to include children

Washington 2015: new highs, new lows

In the year British MPs rejected the practice, assisted suicide in Washington rose to its highest level and was characterised by the youngest participant; shortened doctor-patient relationships; and the rise of financial pressure as a factor

R4’s euthanasia rallying cry

An edition of BBC Radio 4's 'Inside the Ethics Committee' brings together a less than objective panel to call for active, non-voluntary euthanasia

Changing the guard

In CNK's tenth anniversary year, a fond farewell to retiring stalwarts is followed by renewal, as we welcome new Board director Dr Colin Harte
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