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Assisted Suicide: Reflections from the Front

Christopher Jones’ powerful testimony shows how important the protection of the law is to those confronting incurable illnesses

Tutu’s ill-judged intervention

Anti-apartheid campaigner’s arguments for ‘assisted dying’ will fuel existing prejudice against elderly, dying and disabled people

Lord Carey’s ‘change of mind’

Why the former Archbishop of Canterbury is wrong on assisted suicide

HPAD gets slapped down at the BMA ARM

Pro-assisted suicide doctors demonstrate how far from the mainstream of their profession they have strayed

BMJ editorial disowned

Medical profession strikes back at BMJ editors over assisted suicide stance

Falconer: final weeks

What have you done to oppose the ‘Assisted Dying’ Bill?

Twelve marks against Oregon

Reasons to think twice about going the Oregon route on assisted suicide

Oregon: the figures

Steady annual increase in assisted suicide cases sounds warning to UK

Assisted suicide and dementia

Assumptions about dementia could have major implications for proposed legislation to allow assisted suicide in the UK

Assisted suicide and depression

Depression is normally a reversible condition, but campaigners regard suicidal tendencies in people with chronic or terminal illnesses not as symptomatic of depression but as a rational will to die

Comment: MPs don’t need to change the law on assisted suicide

Lawyer David Foster considers June’s Supreme Court ruling, and its implications

Care Not Killing welcomes Supreme Court judgement

‘The law in England and Wales remains unchanged, with the Court recognising that it exists to protect vulnerable, elderly and disabled people’

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