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‘Startling’ new PDOC guidance

Medical Opinion
13 August, 2018

Severely brain-damaged patients are commonly misdiagnosed, often aware and may well recover, says authoritative new report

Personal reflection on food and fluids ruling

Personal stories
3 August, 2018

Nikki Kenward, who lived with the MND-like symptoms of Guillain-Barre Syndrome, writes: ‘this is not civilization but barbarity… We need more legal restraints, not fewer.’

Supreme Court on CANH: overview of Care Not Killing media contributions

Media centre
2 August, 2018

The issue of withdrawing food and fluids from brain damaged patients is complex and little understood – Care Not Killing was on hand to outline concerns with the Supreme Court’s ruling on a busy media day

Supreme Court rules on CANH withdrawal

Press Releases
30 July, 2018

Care Not Killing responds to disappointing ruling that the Supreme Court wants to remove important safeguard from brain-damaged patients

‘Suicidal’: a throwaway word?

Articles
25 July, 2018

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

Appeal Court Ruling: CNK evidence

Articles
27 June, 2018

The three judges who heard Noel Conway’s Appeal in May 2018 referred to evidence and submissions put forward by Care Not Killing a number of times in their June judgment

Appeal judges dismiss Conway bid

Articles
25 June, 2018

‘We do not consider that the approach or those conclusions of the Divisional Court can be faulted… [and so] we dismiss both the appeal and the respondent’s notice’

CNK welcomes Conway appeal ruling

Press Releases
25 June, 2018

‘Care Not Killing welcomes the Court of Appeal’s sensible decision to reject this latest attempt to legalise assisted suicide’

Forced to choose

Articles
14 June, 2018

A new report from Quebec picks up a recurring theme of patients being driven towards assisted suicide and euthanasia – now ‘healthcare’ – by a failure to provide wanted care and treatment

Dr Death’s new invention

Articles
12 June, 2018

CNK Campaign Director hits out at media outlets giving a platform to suicide advocate Philip Nitschke

Portugal rejects euthanasia bills

Articles
30 May, 2018

Portugal follows Finland, Guernsey and California in encouraging May pushbacks against euthanasia and assisted suicide – but a new bill looms in Dublin

May 2018 media highlights

Media centre
21 May, 2018

Between the Court of Appeal, impassioned legislative debate in Guernsey and a 104-year old travelling to Switzerland for assisted suicide, there’s been much to comment on in May – and CNK’s responses have been front and centre.

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