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Think tank report urges assisted suicide caution

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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

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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

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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Emmerdale suicide storyline “discriminatory and outdated”

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

New Manx assisted suicide proposal

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Members of the House of Keys grant leave for an assisted suicide bill to be brought forward in the Isle of Man

Suicide statistics don’t support law change

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“We welcome the release of these figures by the ONS, which no doubt advocates of assisted suicide and euthanasia will claim support their calls for a change in the law – but they do not.”

Government agrees palliative care right

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The Government has agreed to amend the Health and Care Bill to make palliative care commissioning a legal requirement across England

Oregon 2021: anorexia, hernias & feeling a burden

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The 24th annual report on assisted suicide in Oregon has been framed to ward off difficult questions, but only lays bare how much they don’t know about assisted suicide in practice.
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