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CNK evidence before NZ Parliament

Care Not Killing’s Campaign Director testifies before New Zealand Health Select Committee

What to expect of 2017

Things have been quieter than usual on the end of life front in the UK since the overwhelming defeat of Rob Marris’s and Patrick Harvie’s assisted suicide bills in 2015 in the Westminster and Scottish Parliament’s respectively. But there is new activity in the UK and plenty happening abroad. What can we expect this year?

New case to cover old ground

Assisted suicide advocates bring new attempt before the courts – a case built on legal ground already assessed and ruled on by the highest courts in the land

Quebec exceeds expectations

Officials in Quebec say the number of euthanasia deaths in the first seven months was almost three times their expectation

Colorado accepts assisted suicide

The ‘Centennial State’ becomes the sixth American jurisdiction to legislate for assisted suicide following a ballot initiative

DC chooses dangerous PAS pathway

America’s autonomous capital district approves Oregon-style assisted suicide legislation

Why ‘no’ to assisted suicide

Care Not Killing’s Campaign Director, Dr Peter Saunders, was invited to write in opposition to the aims of a recently re-launched campaign group

Stuck in the past?

All campaigning organisations have back-stocks of material to use up, but assisted suicide advocates’ recent revival of an old publication raises some pointed questions

Chemo no, assisted suicide yes

Four months after assisted suicide became legal in California, patients are being told that treatment will no longer be funded – but assisted suicide will -as happened in Oregon

Dutch mull euthanasia extension

Dutch Government ministers have announced their intention to legislate for assisted suicide for ‘people who regard their life as completed’

‘Old age rational suicide’

In the latest example of assisted suicide advocates softening their language, the Society for Old Age Rational Suicide becomes ‘My Death, My Decision’

Swiss assisted suicides up 26%

Swiss authorities, publishing statistics for the first time since 2009, record 742 assisted suicides of Swiss residents in 2014

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