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Six months redefined

Articles
11 January, 2018

‘Terminal illness, in Oregon, is defined to include people who will become terminally ill if they refuse effective medical treatment or care’

Courts consider food & fluids

Articles
4 January, 2018

Supreme Court to rule on whether doctors can remove food and fluids from brain-damaged patients without going to court

Quebec: two years in

Articles
22 December, 2017

Quebec legislated for euthanasia months before the Supreme Court-mandated federal legislation came into being. After just two years, comparisons are being made with the Belgian experience.

New Zealand euthanasia bill heads to committee

Articles
22 December, 2017

David Seymour’s ‘End of Life Choice Bill’ passes its first reading vote in the New Zealand Parliament

Victorian bill becomes law

Articles
22 December, 2017

The Australian state of Victoria’s Parliament has passed Government legislation to permit euthanasia

Autumn media comment

Media centre
21 December, 2017

You’ll often have seen our colleagues speaking on TV during high profile legislative battles, but here are a few of our many more low key media contributions from Autumn 2017

‘Assisted dying legislation creates different categories of human life’

Personal opinion
10 November, 2017

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’?

Oncologist on Victoria bill

Medical Opinion
10 November, 2017

‘To grant a few the right to euthanasia means that the rights of many vulnerable others are compromised’

A granddaughter reflects

Personal stories
10 November, 2017

‘As someone who has seen the ugliness of a slow demise, I reject the notion that dignity can be measured by the level of pain or the speed in which the individual dies’

Dutch consider euthanasia charges

Articles
9 November, 2017

After 15 years, will the Dutch finally prosecute a euthanasia doctor?

‘Surprised to wake up’

Personal stories
8 November, 2017

A man from Inverness, living with MS, put off his plans to have an assisted suicide in Switzerland when he was made aware of support available

Dignified death? 82% say hospice

Articles
13 October, 2017

A survey conducted to mark Hospice Care Week uncovers a range of attitudes and levels of awareness

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