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Doctors tell MPs: PAS not the way

Letters
24 August, 2015

‘Assisting suicide runs counter to our duty of care’ say nearly 80 doctors in open letter to MPs

Top Oregon doctor: PAS law a ‘mistake’

Medical Opinion
24 August, 2015

Senior Oregon doctor says that ‘assisted suicide has been detrimental to patients, degraded the quality of medical care, and compromised the integrity of the medical profession’.

Still crazy after all these years

Articles
24 August, 2015

A timely reminder for those weary of continually revived ‘assisted dying’ proposals that the defences we return to are no less valid – and that ‘dignity’ may have been hijacked, but it has not been redefined

Broken, you say? No

Articles
11 August, 2015

Britain’s law on assisted suicide is not ‘broken’ and does not need ‘fixing’

Limits to choice

Articles
7 August, 2015

The assisted suicide of Gill Pharaoh reminds us that actually, there are limits to choice

Washington PAS stats up again

Articles
28 July, 2015

Lord Falconer and Rob Marris invite the UK to follow Oregon. Washington State did (to the letter) and their latest, 2014, figures are up again

Assisted Dying Bill published

Official documents
27 July, 2015

Almost seven weeks after it was announced, and barely seven weeks until MPs – many of whom are now on holiday – debate it, the Assisted Dying (No. 2) Bill is finally published

ECtHR: legal bid ‘inadmissible’

Official documents
16 July, 2015

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has found the latest Nicklinson/Lamb legal challenge to be ‘manifestly ill-founded and declared it inadmissible’

Parliamentary Lobby Day

Personal opinion
16 July, 2015

Disabled people descended on Westminster in droves this week to lobby MPs on Rob Marris’s Assisted Dying (No 2) Bill

MND & hospice: did you know?

Personal stories
16 July, 2015

Hospice care is most often associated with illnesses like cancer, but a series of personal accounts published to mark MND Awareness Month shows its potential goes much further

Hospice: BBC drama’s poor opinion

Articles
11 June, 2015

Hospice UK’s Jonathan Ellis questions the repeated dismissal of hospice care in television dramas – and the impact this has on popular opinion

PM reaffirms AS opposition

Personal opinion
10 June, 2015

Prime Minister David Cameron tells a packed House of Commons that he remains opposed to assisted suicide and euthanasia

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