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A change in the law to allow assisted suicide is dangerous and unnecessary
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
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
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?
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
Officials in Quebec say the number of euthanasia deaths in the first seven months was almost three times their expectation
The 'Centennial State' becomes the sixth American jurisdiction to legislate for assisted suicide following a ballot initiative
America's autonomous capital district approves Oregon-style assisted suicide legislation
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
In the latest example of assisted suicide advocates softening their language, the Society for Old Age Rational Suicide becomes 'My Death, My Decision'
Dutch Government ministers have announced their intention to legislate for assisted suicide for 'people who regard their life as completed'
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 authorities, publishing statistics for the first time since 2009, record 742 assisted suicides of Swiss residents in 2014
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
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
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
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
The film adaptation of Jojo Moyes' 'Me Before You' has enraged disabled activists with its depiction of a man living with quadriplegia who wants to end his life