Tag: Media

Caution urged as MSPs hear from Canadian doctor

Press release: medical experts campaigning against Liam McArthur's Holyrood bill express their concerns ahead of a meeting between Dr James Downar and MSPs.

Prue and Danny’s Death Road Trip

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.

Emmerdale suicide storyline “discriminatory and outdated”

Press Release: Care Not Killing responds to the decision by ITV’s Emmerdale programme to feature the suicide of Faith Dingle who is taking her own life because she is in the last stages of terminal cancer.

Suicide statistics don’t support law change

“We welcome the release of these figures by the ONS, which no doubt advocates of assisted suicide and euthanasia will claim support their calls for a change in the law – but they do not.”

Statement on Noa Pothoven

A statement following clarification of a Dutch news report

Times reports BBC bias complaint

Care Not Killing complaint to BBC Director-General Lord Hall over the corporation's coverage of assisted suicide receives coverage in national media

Review: Louis Theroux’s ‘Choosing Death’

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

First suicide prevention minister

Suicide Prevention Minister urged to clamp down on 'irresponsible' portrayal of suicide in media

Dr Death’s new invention

CNK Campaign Director hits out at media outlets giving a platform to suicide advocate Philip Nitschke

May 2018 media highlights

Between the Court of Appeal, impassioned legislative debate in Guernsey and a 104-year old travelling to Switzerland for assisted suicide, there's been much to comment on in May - and CNK's responses have been front and centre.

Autumn media comment

You'll often have seen our colleagues speaking on TV during high profile legislative battles, but here are a few of our many more low key media contributions from Autumn 2017

R4’s euthanasia rallying cry

An edition of BBC Radio 4's 'Inside the Ethics Committee' brings together a less than objective panel to call for active, non-voluntary euthanasia

Me Before You-thanasia

The film adaptation of Jojo Moyes' 'Me Before You' has enraged disabled activists with its depiction of a man living with quadriplegia who wants to end his life

Peggy’s suicide: BBC does it again

As Eastenders' Peggy Mitchell commits suicide in the face of terminal cancer, TV's inability to envisage a positive response to end of life suffering comes back into focus

‘Assisted Suicide: the Musical’

Actress, comedienne and campaigner Liz Carr brings a new and dynamic consideration of assisted suicide to the Royal Festival Hall this September

Hospice: BBC drama’s poor opinion

Hospice UK's Jonathan Ellis questions the repeated dismissal of hospice care in television dramas - and the impact this has on popular opinion

Support ebbs ahead of bill debate

Care Not Killing's campaign against the Assisted Suicide (Scotland) Bill has been prominent in the news ahead of debate in Holyrood. Popular support is faltering, more than 15,000 have supported CNK's petition and opposition among MSPs is strong

Holyrood petition backed

'the wake-up call surely has sounded'