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NZ vote ‘based on widespread confusion’

  • Articles
Responding to the results of a referendum on euthanasia, campaigners in New Zealand note that polling indicated ‘widespread confusion’ about how a new law would function.

The Times, 2 November 2020

  • Letters
CNK’s CEO writes following the publication of yet more opinion polling which fails to address the risks and failings of legalised assisted suicide and euthanasia, concluding: ‘mendacious claims about safeguards and strict limits should be dismissed.’

Not ‘just another customer-supplier relationship’

  • Letters
A palliative care physician considers medical opinion on assisted suicide and answers the question: ‘Where is the patient in all this?’

Widening Canada’s euthanasia law set to save $149m

  • Articles
As Canada considers how to enact court-ordered extension of its euthanasia law beyond those whose deaths are reasonably foreseeable, analysts estimate increased deaths will see significant savings

BMA ‘assisted dying’ poll takeaways

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Beneath the headline grabbing top-line numbers lies a complex picture of medical opinion on the question of whether they should be empowered to end patients’ lives

Dutch to extend euthanasia to children of any age

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Government announcement would see current minimum age of 12 dropped.

‘Not signs of progress but rather a regression’

  • Articles
High level Spanish report points to ‘solid health, ethical, legal, economic and social reasons’ to reject euthanasia and assisted suicide

New Scottish assisted suicide bill to come in 2021

  • Articles
Activists announce that they will bring a new bill following Holyrood elections set for May 2021

BMA poll shows mixed views on Assisted Dying

  • Press Releases
Care Not Killing notes the results of the British Medical Association poll showing mixed views on Assisted Dying

Euthanasia bill tabled in Ireland

  • Articles
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.

Experts outline assisted suicide risks to MPs

  • Events Reports
Dutch academic and former euthanasia regulator Theo Boer and American lawyer and author Wesley Smith addressed Parliamentarians on World Suicide Prevention Day.

Webinar: disability, medicine and euthanasia

  • Resources
Disability rights advocate Baroness Grey-Thompson, geriatrician Professor Des O’Neill and palliative care consultant Dr Sinéad Donnelly discuss euthanasia and assisted suicide.
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