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Manx split on assisted suicide: doctors respond

Manx Duty of Care responds to the results of the Consultation on Assisted Dying.

Canada: yes to minors, mental illnesses on hold

Canadian Parliamentarians have recommended that euthanasia be made available to children, two weeks after the Government bowed to pressure and postponed expansion to those with mental illnesses.

Warnings to Jersey, the Commons & the Isle of Man

Read our submissions to the Jersey and Isle of Man consultations, and House of Commons Health Select Committee inquiry, on euthanasia and assisted suicide.

Prue and Danny’s Death Road Trip

Channel 4 follows television chef and prominent ‘assisted dying’ advocate Prue Leith on a journey to North America with her MP son, Danny Kruger, Chair of the All-Party Dying Well Group.

Think tank report urges assisted suicide caution

The authors of ‘Physician-Assisted Suicide: Improving the Quality of the Debate’ include a retired Supreme Court Justice, a former Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission a leading barrister

Oregon at 25: new highs, new lows

The assisted suicide law supposedly limited by a six-month prognosis now sees patients outlive this by five years, with individual doctors writing lethal prescriptions on a weekly basis.

It’s consultation season

The Crown Dependencies of Jersey and the Isle of Man are both consulting on legalising assisted suicide (and euthanasia), while the House of Commons Health Committee has also announced an inquiry.

Emmerdale suicide storyline “discriminatory and outdated”

Press Release: Care Not Killing responds to the decision by ITV’s Emmerdale programme to feature the suicide of Faith Dingle who is taking her own life because she is in the last stages of terminal cancer.

Scottish consultation summary published

Care Not Killing responds in the media as Liam McArthur prepares to publish his assisted suicide bill “in the near future”

Westminster Hall debate voices of caution welcomed

Care Not Killing is pleased at the “strength and breadth” of opposition from MPs towards the policy of introducing euthanasia and assisted suicide (EAS), in the UK.

Key evidence guide brought up to date

Bioethicists in Oxford have released the latest iteration of their evidence guide for the debate on assisted suicide and euthanasia

WATCH: MPs hear expert testimony from Canada

The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Dying Well (with which CNK works) hosted “Lessons from Canada: Evidence from Palliative Care, Psychiatry and Law” on 23 May 2022

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