Alternative Approach
Key Points Read Next: Read Next: https://carenotkilling.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Doctor-in-Hijab-2.mp4 What will end-of-life care look like in 2045? By then, the number of people over 85-years-old is projected by NHS England to almost double to 3.1 million Will assisted suicide become so normalised in society that the right to die will become a duty to die? Or will […]
Suicide Prevention

Key Points Read Next: Read Next: Society should try to prevent suicide, not assist it. The business of suicide prevention is seriously undermined by passing an “assisted dying” law because it changes suicide from being something that society regards as detrimental and to be discouraged into something that is regarded as a valid option. https://carenotkilling.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Sad-and-Tearful-Man-Website-Loop.mp4 […]
Unsolved Problems

Key Points Read Next: Read Next: Some people will still travel abroad There will still be family trauma What’s Wrong with Legalising assisted suicide? Some people will fall through the social care net and still travel abroad People who do not meet the qualifying criteria for assisted suicide in the UK will still travel abroad […]
Means of Death

Key Points Read Next: Read Next: Death by lethal drugs may not be peaceful, painless or quick The lethal drugs administered under ‘assisted dying’ schemes are often the same ones used to execute prisoners on death row in the USA. Professor Joel Zivot of Emory university has written that when assisted suicide deaths use the […]
Anorexia & Depression

Key Points Read Next: Read Next: What’s Wrong with Legalising assisted suicide? How do people with Anorexia qualify? In Oregon, people with anorexia who refuse treatment are deemed to be terminally ill and can be given assisted suicide. One study shows over 60 cases of people with anorexia being given assisted suicide have occurred in […]
Legal Concerns
Key Points Read Next: Read Next: This Bill will dramatically and fundamentally change the role of judges in England and Wales. Currently judges can rule on end-of-life cases, but their powers extended only to authorising the withdrawal of treatment, not the administration of treatment intended to cause death. Legal professionals have expressed concerns over the […]
Slippery Slope

Key Points Read Next: Read Next: The Claim We will put “the strictest possible safeguards” in place to protect vulnerable people. The Problem There is a fundamental flaw that causes safeguards to slip and fall. The Agenda The dirty secret is that activist groups have a roadmap for how to extend the laws once the […]
Public Polling

Key Points Read Next: Read Next: "A lot of those surveys are in the territory where they get the questioning wrong and if they dug further, they’d find something quite different." Dr Greg Pike. pic.twitter.com/LVks7phdcJ — Care Not Killing (@CNKAlliance) November 28, 2024 When you run a poll in the way that proponents of assisted […]
Palliative Care

Key Points Read Next: Read Next: https://carenotkilling.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Good-palliative-care-gives-time.mp4 When people are properly cared for they rarely want to end their lives, but 100,000 people a year do not get the palliative care they need. Good quality palliative care relieves symptoms and can give people who are ternimally ill precious extra time to spend with their loved […]
Impact on the NHS

Key Points Read Next: Read Next: The NHS is broken. Our amazing social care and palliative care system is under too much strain already. How can we expect it to cope with the enormous pressure that implementing this law would add? https://carenotkilling.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/State-Suicide-Service-02.mp4 The NHS is supposed to be cradle to grave, not cradle ’til we’re […]
Poverty Issues

Key Points Read Next: Read Next: https://carenotkilling.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Mum-wipes-tear.mp4 Poorer people with terminal illnesses will also feel disproportionately under more pressure to have an assisted suicide. Disadvantaged families are hit hardest by the costs associated with terminal illness. They can spend as much as 98% of their income on the added costs brought on by terminal illness. […]
Disability Concerns

Key Points Read Next: Read Next: What’s Wrong with Legalising assisted suicide? Leading disability rights campaigners – Tanni Grey-Thompson and Liz Carr – echo these concerns about pressure https://carenotkilling.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Disabled-voices-1.mp4 When people with a disabilty get a terminal illness, they will feel disproportionately under more pressure to have an assisted suicide. In one sense, they face […]
Pressure and Coercion

Key Points Read Next: Read Next: https://carenotkilling.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/No-one-should-be-pressured.mp4 No-one should be pressured to end their life. But pressure and coercion can be subtle or overt Internal pressure – feeling a burden. External pressure – elder abuse, financial abuse. Systemic pressure – healthcare professionals and institutions. Many will choose it because they don’t want to be a […]
Autonomy v Public Safety

Key Points Read Next: Read Next: If you think legalising euthanasia or assisted suicide is just about giving choice to a few people dying with a terminal illness, think again. It ends up putting thousands of people into a position where they feel they have no choice. Choice for a few means pressure and coercion […]
ISSUES

The debate about legalising assisted suicide has compassion on both sides. There’s the compassion that focuses on the individual. And there’s a wider, deeper compassion that asks, “What’s best for everyone in society?“ Everyone deserves a dignified death We don’t lose dignity because we have an illness or disease or we need looking after in […]