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Quebec expands euthanasia law

Bill 11, approved this week, ushers in advance requests for illnesses like dementia, and curtails hospice conscience rights.

“Mercy killing” and suicide pact consultation submission

Read the joint CNK-ODOC response to proposed changes to prosecution guidelines

CNK-ODOC suicide prevention submission 2022

We considered, in particular, the arguments and evidence of the debate on assisted suicide in responding to the Department of Health consultation.

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Emmerdale suicide storyline “discriminatory and outdated”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”

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