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BMA ARM 2016: why ‘no’ to physician-assisted suicide

  • Medical Opinion
The BMA should reject this latest attempt to push it neutral on assisted suicide and euthanasia

BMA to debate assisted suicide

  • Medical Opinion
At its annual representative meeting next week, the BMA will consider two motions concerning physician-assisted suicide

Me Before You-thanasia

  • Articles
The film adaptation of Jojo Moyes’ ‘Me Before You’ has enraged disabled activists with its depiction of a man living with quadriplegia who wants to end his life

Author of key Lords report dies

  • Articles
Lord Walton of Detchant, the eminent neurologist who died last month, penned a Select Committee report concerning euthanasia still referred to as the ‘gold standard’ today

Dutch sex abuse victim euthanized

  • Articles
A woman in her 20s who was sexually abused as a child has been euthanized in the Netherlands on the basis of the resultant PTSD

Peggy’s suicide: BBC does it again

  • Press Releases
As Eastenders’ Peggy Mitchell commits suicide in the face of terminal cancer, TV’s inability to envisage a positive response to end of life suffering comes back into focus

Dutch euthanasia up again in 2015

  • Articles
The 5,516 deaths reported in the Netherlands in 2015 would translate to more than 20,000 based on a UK-sized population, as paediatricians press for easier child euthanasia and academics report on euthanasia for psychiatric patients.

Canadian Government E&AS bill out

  • Articles
Fifteen months after the Supreme Court ordered federal legislation, the Trudeau government has published its draft bill

‘Assisted Suicide: the Musical’

  • Articles
Actress, comedienne and campaigner Liz Carr brings a new and dynamic consideration of assisted suicide to the Royal Festival Hall this September

Oregon assisted suicides jump

  • Articles
Last year’s reported 132 assisted suicides in Oregon represented a 24.4% rise on 2014, and would translate to 2,147 for a UK-sized population

On her husband’s assisted suicide

  • Personal stories
Debbie Binner says ‘Campaigners for assisted dying underestimate how terrible it is for those of us left behind… I didn’t care what state he was or might be in, he was my husband’

Belgian euthanasia: up and up

  • Articles
Latest figures show a new high for Belgian euthanasia in 2015 – as officials concede that under-reporting means they can’t be certain how many lives have been ended
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