Category: Personal opinion

CNK CEO on BMA neutrality, and the need for more research

BMA opts for Neutrality on Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia as Leading ‘Choice’ Advocate admits we need more research on Painful Deaths

MP: ‘Strict safeguards… little more than vague phrases’

'The time is well overdue for the assisted dying lobby to address these and other issues seriously, rather than to be wheeling out the same failed ideas over and again', Desmond Swayne writes.

‘Assisted dying legislation creates different categories of human life’

Should 'an individual's right to avoid that final human tribulation... be given priority in law over the inherent risk involved in state-sanctioned euthanasia to the lives of our most vulnerable citizens'?

Parliamentary Lobby Day

Disabled people descended on Westminster in droves this week to lobby MPs on Rob Marris's Assisted Dying (No 2) Bill

PM reaffirms AS opposition

Prime Minister David Cameron tells a packed House of Commons that he remains opposed to assisted suicide and euthanasia

The threat to disabled people

Baroness Campbell, noted disability rights campaigner, discusses the real threat posed to disabled people by the Falconer Bill, and why its passage would constitute 'the triumph of despair over hope'

Euthanasia in children: why the proposed Belgian legislation is misconceived

Charles Foster, who this week made CNK's intervention in the Supreme Court assisted suicide appeals, puts the current Belgian child euthanasia debate in perspective.

Euthanasia: We can live without it

'Disabled people, elderly people, adults made vulnerable by terminal and other illnesses, and now children are being told that their lives are not worth living.'

Disabilities & ‘assisted dying’

With all major disabilities activists' groups opposed to euthanasia and assisted suicide, what is Dignity in Dying's new wing's real purpose?

Assisted living, not assisted dying

Human rights, equalities and disability rights expert Neil Crowther dissects the most prominent reasons given for legal change.

Lib Dem Peer clarifies debate on ‘assisted dying’

Lord Carlile responds to party activist's 'errors, half truths and spin' on 'assisted dying'

Increase in assisted suicide cases sends warning to Britain

Huge increase in assisted suicide cases in Oregon and Switzerland sounds strong warning to Britain

Right-to-live

Unlike Craig Ewert, MND patient Michael Wenham doesn't want 'right-to-die'...

My daughter

A mother considers the potential impact of Baroness Warnock's thinking...

Dear Noel, is life really not worth living?

Disabled broadcaster Liz Carr asks if disabled life is really not worth living...

Join the fight

It's time to join the fight against the growing world-wide assisted suicide movement...