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The threat to disabled people

Personal opinion
13 June, 2014

Baroness Campbell, noted disability rights campaigner, discusses the real threat posed to disabled people by the Falconer Bill, and why its passage would constitute ‘the triumph of despair over hope’

MPs denounce assisted suicide

Articles
13 June, 2014

MPs from all parties have expressed concern over the rising numbers of deaths under Washington state’s Oregon-inspired assisted suicide law.

Disabled leaders speak out

Letters
5 June, 2014

‘The Assisted Dying Bill devalues the lives of terminally ill and disabled people’

Scottish Bill Consultation

Submissions
23 May, 2014

Care Not Killing has responded to the Scottish Parliament’s call for evidence concerning the Assisted Suicide (Scotland) Bill. Have you?

Quick Briefing

Quick Overview
23 May, 2014

Assisted Suicide (Scotland) Bill

Celebrity mixed messaging

Articles
14 May, 2014

Richard & Judy’s euthanasia pact comments are ill-informed, misjudged – and tellingly inconsistent

Only 21% discuss end of life care

Articles
14 May, 2014

Death was always one of the great taboos of British conversation – and it seems that not much has changed, according to recent Dying Matters research.

Margo MacDonald has died

Press Releases
4 April, 2014

PM against assisted suicide

Articles
31 March, 2014

David Cameron’s reaffirmed opposition to assisted suicide is in keeping with other party leaders’ comments over recent years

Palliative Care Congress

Events Reports
20 March, 2014

Those who care for dying people every day of their working lives tell us: we don’t back assisted suicide – we can do better for our patients

Doctors & prosecution guidelines

Articles
11 March, 2014

BMA past president tells the House of Lords that claims that prosecutorial guidelines ‘inhibit’ doctors are ‘unfounded’

Lords consider DPP’s guidelines

Articles
11 March, 2014

Four years after the then Director of Public Prosecutions published his criteria for prosecuting in instances of assisted suicide, Peers last week locked horns over the merits and demerits of the guidelines.

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