Tag: Abroad

Months – or years?

Those helped to kill themselves under Lord Falconer's Assisted Dying Bill may have years to live

Getting to grips with Oregon

Don't make Oregon's mistake and legalise assisted suicide - ten reasons why the UK should not follow suit

Physician-assisted Suicide: Some Reasons for Rejecting Lord Falconer’s Bill

A report by Professor John Keown of Georgetown University concerning the Assisted Dying Bill and its broader context

Twelve marks against Oregon

Reasons to think twice about going the Oregon route on assisted suicide

Oregon: the figures

Steady annual increase in assisted suicide cases sounds warning to UK

MPs denounce assisted suicide

MPs from all parties have expressed concern over the rising numbers of deaths under Washington state's Oregon-inspired assisted suicide law.

Council of Europe

Child euthanasia in Belgium has been denounced at the Council's Parliamentary Assembly - 'the democratic conscience of Greater Europe'

‘The only humane approach’

Kathy Gyngell describes how redoubled care efforts overcame her terminally ill husband's despair - and afforded him a peaceful death

Euthanasia in children: why the proposed Belgian legislation is misconceived

Charles Foster, who this week made CNK's intervention in the Supreme Court assisted suicide appeals, puts the current Belgian child euthanasia debate in perspective.

Euthanasia: We can live without it

'Disabled people, elderly people, adults made vulnerable by terminal and other illnesses, and now children are being told that their lives are not worth living.'

Belgium’s grisly descent…

...down euthanasia's slippery slope

Belgian child euthanasia vote

Belgian Senate will vote on bill to extend euthanasia to children with disabilities on 26 November

A deadly conflict of interest

Why euthanasia in Belgium is so out of control

Euthanasia Prevention Coalition – Europe

New European group launched to halt 'growing threat' of state-sanctioned euthanasia

Court victories in Canada

Two huge court victories in British Columbia and Ontario thwart legalisation of euthanasia in Canada

Tasmania rejects euthanasia bill

Bill to legalise euthanasia and assisted suicide defeated in the Australian state's legislature

NZ euthanasia bill withdrawn

MP withdraws euthanasia bill after pressure from Labour Party colleagues

Dutch euthanasia up 13% in 2012

Euthanasia deaths continue their relentless rise in the Netherlands