“The Court observed that there were potentially broad social implications and risks of error and abuse involved in the provision of physician-assisted dying.
Press release: medical experts campaigning against Liam McArthur's Holyrood bill express their concerns ahead of a meeting between Dr James Downar and MSPs.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Special rapporteurs argue that legislative provisions for assisted suicide and euthanasia ‘tend to rest on - or draw strength from - ableist assumptions about the inherent “quality of life” or “worth’ of the life of a person with a disability.’
Responding to the results of a referendum on euthanasia, campaigners in New Zealand note that polling indicated 'widespread confusion' about how a new law would function.
As Canada considers how to enact court-ordered extension of its euthanasia law beyond those whose deaths are reasonably foreseeable, analysts estimate increased deaths will see significant savings
