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Parliamentary Lobby Day

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

New Commons ‘Assisted Dying’ Bill

  • Articles
Labour MP wins chance to bring Lord Falconer’s ‘assisted dying’ bill before the House of Commons. Will MPs follow the House of Lords, Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and Tynwald in saying ‘no’?

Dignitas death doublespeak

  • Articles
Assisted suicide advocates lose sight of the limits they have set for themselves as another Briton dies at Dignitas

MSP speaks up for disabled people

  • Personal stories
The Assisted Suicide (Scotland) Bill ‘would reinforce the concept that my life and those of others with life-shortening conditions are not worth living and are not of the same value’

Holyrood debate: highlights

  • Events Reports
Read, in their own words, why MSPs voted to again reject assisted suicide

Harvie Bill: how MSPs voted

  • Events Reports
The full lists of those MSPs who voted for and against the Assisted Suicide (Scotland) Bill at Stage One debate on 27 May 2015

Scottish assisted suicide bill defeated

  • Articles
In a free vote at Holyrood, MSPs have thrown out the Assisted Suicide (Scotland) Bill at Stage One by 82 votes to 36, in a clear repudiation of the principles of the Bill

Support ebbs ahead of bill debate

  • Public opinion
Care Not Killing’s campaign against the Assisted Suicide (Scotland) Bill has been prominent in the news ahead of debate in Holyrood. Popular support is faltering, more than 15,000 have supported CNK’s petition and opposition among MSPs is strong

WATCH: ‘Real Compassion’

  • Resources
Care Not Killing considers the challenge before MSPs ahead of their 27 May debate and vote on the Assisted Suicide (Scotland) Bill.
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