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Palliative medics: still no to AS

Letters
10 April, 2015

Senior figures in palliative medicine restate the doctors’ case for opposing assisted suicide for their patients

‘Scottish legal position clear’

Letters
8 April, 2015

Suggestions that the current legal settlement concerning assisted suicide in Scotland is ambiguous are scotched

Scottish bill guides published

Resources
27 March, 2015

As the stage one debate draws closer, Care Not Killing releases guides to Patrick Harvie’s assisted suicide proposals for Scotland

6.3% of Belgian deaths now E&AS

Articles
24 March, 2015

New analysis finds that 4.6% of deaths in Belgium are by euthanasia, 0.05% by assisted suicide and 1.7% are ‘hastened… without explicit request from patient’

MPs report on end of life care

Articles
24 March, 2015

The Commons Health Select Committee report on end of life care was welcomed – cautiously

Physician-assisted ‘suicide option would undermine my cancer battle’

Personal stories
11 March, 2015

Proponents of physician-assisted suicide suggest having the option legally available is comforting – ‘but I can tell you from personal experience that it is nearly as troubling as the cancer itself’

Has medicine ‘lost its way’?

Medical Opinion
11 March, 2015

‘The holistic nature of our care, the presence, the confidence to bear witness to all suffering is what underpins hospice care. To introduce ‘death on demand’ as an option seems to be a tragic and unnecessary development’

PAS debate: doctor to doctor

Events Reports
11 March, 2015

Watch Dr Peter Saunders address the question, ‘should assisted suicide be legalised?’, at Luton and Dunstable Hospital on 10 March 2015, placing established arguments in the current policy context

First Minister rejects AS Bill

Press Releases
6 March, 2015

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon refuses to support the controversial bill before MSPs, saying: ‘I believe we should support people to live’

Carers’ concerns revealed

Public opinion
6 March, 2015

A new survey by Marie Curie has revealed the top concerns people would have if they were faced with caring for a loved one with a terminal illness

10,000 sign Scottish petition

Press Releases
27 February, 2015

The Care Not Killing petition urging MSPs not to make assisted suicide legal in Scotland has attracted more than 10,000 signatures

Going Dutch?

Articles
25 February, 2015

A study published in the Journal of Medical Ethics suggests that a third of Dutch doctors would assist a patient’s suicide in cases of mental illness or dementia, and a fifth would where there was ‘tiredness of life’ but no physical condition

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