Tag: Media

Celebrity mixed messaging

Richard & Judy's euthanasia pact comments are ill-informed, misjudged - and tellingly inconsistent

Call the Midwife

The BBC's popular Sunday night drama offers an alternative view of 'a good death'

Werther & Papageno on the cobbles

How did Coronation Street do?

Five myths about death and dying

Assisted suicide on Coronation Street

Breakfast-time bias on the BBC

Further evidence of BBC cheerleading for assisted suicide

Soaps and assisted suicide

Coronation Street must handle assisted suicide story with great sensitivity and care

More dangerous media partiality

Guardian health editor jumps onto suicide promotion bandwagon

Groningen Protocol

Asked for evidence of the much-maligned 'slippery slope', our Campaign Director shocked radio listeners with a Dutch protocol under which disabled babies can be euthanized.

BBC3’s ‘Way to Go’: review

BBC's assisted suicide comedy highlights breadth of dangers associated with assisted suicide, but fails to prove subject matter's artistic merit.

Comedian’s ‘Euthanasia Road Trip’

'why these countries pass such laws, how they work and whether my concerns are justified'

BBC’s latest comedy offering: assisted suicide

Another example of institutional bias, a welcome opening of debate - or just plain bad taste?

Amour – an award winning film with a sting in the tail

Positive protrayals of euthanasia in cinema have a long history

BBC Panorama findings will heighten calls for review of Tony Bland judgement

An uncommunicative, severely brain-injured patient has been able to give answers clinically relevant to their care

New suicide strategy is welcome but needs to address more effectively the phenomenon of media-induced suicide contagion

The Government has promised to pump £1.5 million into research exploring how to prevent suicides among those most at risk of taking their own lives.

If Norman Lamb is really serious about suicide prevention he should stop using the media to promote assisted suicide

Norman Lamb took the opportunity on the Today programme to promote his views on assisted suicide

British Medical Journal adopts campaigning stance on euthanasia

3 articles this week aim at neutralising medical opposition to euthanasia

What we weren’t told about Terry Pratchett’s ‘award-winning’ euthanasia documentary

Things that we were not told about Terry Pratchett's documentary

Alison Davis on BBC World Service

Alison Davis is interviewed by Mark Dowd of the BBC World Service in the first episode of a series Heart And Soul: Choosing Life.