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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

Oregon deaths reach new high

Articles
25 February, 2015

Assisted suicides in Oregon hit 105 in 2014: extrapolated for a UK-sized population, this would represent almost 1,700 deaths here

Senior clinicians: why we say no

Letters
12 February, 2015

Scottish doctors with ‘…tens of thousands of patient-years experience in the care of people with advanced and incurable illnesses’ explain their opposition to the Harvie Bill

Disabled Canadians react to court

Articles
9 February, 2015

Canadian student Taylor Hyatt lives with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy, and was one of many disabled people to express grave concerns over the 6 February Supreme Court of Canada ruling concerning assisted suicide

Canada ruling ‘irresponsible’

Articles
9 February, 2015

Campaigner Alex Schadenberg on the Supreme Court of Canada’s instruction of the federal Parliament to legislate for assisted suicide – within 12 months

Harvie Bill: scope

Articles
6 February, 2015

‘The committee needs to consider whether, as a society, we want to send out the message that some people’s lives are not worth living because of the quality of life that they perceive themselves to have’, CNK Scotland’s Gordon Macdonald tells MSPs

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