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Autumn media comment

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

A granddaughter reflects

  • Personal stories
‘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
After 15 years, will the Dutch finally prosecute a euthanasia doctor?

‘Surprised to wake up’

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

High Court rules on Conway

  • Articles
Judges rule that the Suicide Act is compatible with the European Convention on Human Rights and legitimate ‘to avoid creating a slippery slope leading to incremental expansion’

Care Not Killing welcomes decision to reject legal challenge to suicide law

  • Press Releases
‘We welcome the decision by the High Court to completely reject this attempt to change the law and hope that as a society we can now turn our attention to the important issue of ensuring the highest level of palliative and social care…’

Longer than expected

  • Articles
Where supposedly strictly defined assisted suicide laws are based on six month prognoses, we are every year reminded that these are arbitrary and (sometimes startlingly) unreliable

Conway: High Court case begins

  • Articles
A change in the law to allow assisted suicide is dangerous and unnecessary

General Election 2017

  • Articles
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
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