Private Member’s Bill would allow assisted suicide or euthanasia for anyone with a ‘terminal illness’, without specifying a required prognosis, and requires doctors to facilitate requests.
Disability rights advocate Baroness Grey-Thompson, geriatrician Professor Des O'Neill and palliative care consultant Dr Sinéad Donnelly discuss euthanasia and assisted suicide.
Care Not Killing has strongly condemned a Dutch End of Life Bill that would extend euthanasia to anyone over the age of 75, even if they have no illness or disability.
Reaction to the first public comments of a Dutch doctor cleared of murder after sedating, restraining and administering euthanasia to a patient with dementia.
Recent reports from Canada reveal a worrying trend of doctors being pressurised and bullied into participating in Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD, the Canadian euthanasia programme).
The American state's assisted suicide law, which demands prognoses of six months or less, sees patients live for more than four years between request and death, with 'terminal diseases' including 'complications from a fall'
The US National Council on Disability's report 'Assisted Suicide Laws and their Danger to People with Disabilities' 'finds that the dangers and harms that NCD identified in 1997 and 2005 are at least as significant today.'
Godelieva De Troyer had been suffering from chronic depression for twenty years when she was euthanised, her family unaware, by the doctor who co-chairs the federal euthanasia regulator and who co-founded an organisation De Troyer had just given money to.
Disability activist describes 'the thing that solidified for me that we actually can't safely put in place in this country assisted suicide legislation', as Western Australia mulls euthanasia
Expert report on complications in assisted suicide and euthanasia suggests that a relatively high incidence of vomiting, prolongation of death and reawakening from coma could render such deaths 'inhumane'
Assisted suicide numbers continue to rise in Oregon, with over half* citing fear of being a burden as a reason for ending their lives, as lawmakers consider widening eligibility
The second instalment in Theroux's new series for the BBC, 'Altered States', is an interesting contribution to the debate on euthanasia and assisted suicide - but predictably was badly timed and badly formed
