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Call the Midwife

Articles
11 March, 2014

The BBC’s popular Sunday night drama offers an alternative view of ‘a good death’

RCGP rejects assisted suicide

Press Releases
21 February, 2014

The RCGP maintains its strong opposition to any change in the law to allow ‘assisted dying’ following ‘one of the most comprehensive consultations the College has ever undertaken’

Council of Europe

Articles
6 February, 2014

Child euthanasia in Belgium has been denounced at the Council’s Parliamentary Assembly – ‘the democratic conscience of Greater Europe’

Saying ‘no’ to Margo

Articles
3 February, 2014

A catalogue of reasons why Margo MacDonald’s Assisted Suicide Bill should be rejected

‘New Poll Shows Drop In Support For Euthanasia’

Press Releases
30 January, 2014

A new poll published in Scotland in relation to Margo MacDonald MSP’s Assisted Suicide Bill points to a downward shift in support for such measures.

Shaping ‘Care of Dying People’

Submissions
29 January, 2014

CNK has responded to a key consultation on future goals for the care of dying people

Werther & Papageno on the cobbles

Articles
22 January, 2014

How did Coronation Street do?

Five myths about death and dying

Articles
16 January, 2014

Assisted suicide on Coronation Street

‘The only humane approach’

Personal stories
19 December, 2013

Kathy Gyngell describes how redoubled care efforts overcame her terminally ill husband’s despair – and afforded him a peaceful death

Euthanasia in children: why the proposed Belgian legislation is misconceived

Personal opinion
19 December, 2013

Charles Foster, who this week made CNK’s intervention in the Supreme Court assisted suicide appeals, puts the current Belgian child euthanasia debate in perspective.

Euthanasia: We can live without it

Personal opinion
5 December, 2013

‘Disabled people, elderly people, adults made vulnerable by terminal and other illnesses, and now children are being told that their lives are not worth living.’

Back to (med) school

Events Reports
27 November, 2013

A debate at University College London on Monday night allowed the core principles of the debate on assisted suicide to be addressed – and by a distinguished cast.

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