Depression is normally a reversible condition, but campaigners regard suicidal tendencies in people with chronic or terminal illnesses not as symptomatic of depression but as a rational will to die
Baroness Campbell, noted disability rights campaigner, discusses the real threat posed to disabled people by the Falconer Bill, and why its passage would constitute 'the triumph of despair over hope'
Four years after the then Director of Public Prosecutions published his criteria for prosecuting in instances of assisted suicide, Peers last week locked horns over the merits and demerits of the guidelines.