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Manx split on assisted suicide: doctors respond

Manx Duty of Care responds to the results of the Consultation on Assisted Dying.

Think tank report urges assisted suicide caution

The authors of 'Physician-Assisted Suicide: Improving the Quality of the Debate' include a retired Supreme Court Justice, a former Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission a leading barrister

UN experts condemn euthanasia for disability

Special rapporteurs argue that legislative provisions for assisted suicide and euthanasia ‘tend to rest on - or draw strength from - ableist assumptions about the inherent “quality of life” or “worth’ of the life of a person with a disability.’

MP: ‘Strict safeguards… little more than vague phrases’

'The time is well overdue for the assisted dying lobby to address these and other issues seriously, rather than to be wheeling out the same failed ideas over and again', Desmond Swayne writes.

The Times, 2 November 2020

CNK's CEO writes following the publication of yet more opinion polling which fails to address the risks and failings of legalised assisted suicide and euthanasia, concluding: 'mendacious claims about safeguards and strict limits should be dismissed.'

Not ‘just another customer-supplier relationship’

A palliative care physician considers medical opinion on assisted suicide and answers the question: ‘Where is the patient in all this?’

Euthanasia in Belgium – a son’s story

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.

Assisted suicide law ‘would make me feel a burden’

Mark Blackwell, living with Parkinson's disease and the after-effects of a severe stroke, explains why he fears legalised assisted suicide

‘For me personally, I am just so grateful that there wasn’t a change in the law’

CNK Board member Nola Leach speaks on Radio 4 about her husband's death after three years living with 'brutal' Alzheimer's

Staffing main barrier to good EOLC

Almost two thirds of UK nurses responding to a major survey say staffing shortages are the main barrier to providing good care to dying patients

Many in the dark on end of life

Research indicates 'a lack of understanding that death can be 'gentle, peaceful and pain-free''

Senior judge: law prevents abuse

Former Supreme Court justice Lord Sumption questions basis of claimed public support for assisted suicide and says current legal protections are necessary to guard against abuse

Kiwis speak: the threat to us

Watch ordinary New Zealanders explain why a proposed assisted suicide law would pose a direct threat to them and countless people like them

RCP: backlash continues

Members and fellows publish open letter concerning problems with the RCP's abandonment of opposition to assisted suicide, following resignations from the RCP's own 'ignored' ethics committee

Polling: a house of cards

Yet another opinion poll is unveiled on assisted suicide - riddled, once again, with euphemisms and suppositions

MSPs refute assisted suicide call

MSPs from the Labour, Conservative, Liberal Democrat and Scottish National Parties come together to reject assisted suicide as a response to the needs of the people of Scotland

Poll: public recognise PAS danger

Physician-assisted suicide would 'fundamentally change' doctor-patient relationship, new poll finds

Why the Royal College of Physicians will go ‘neutral’ on assisted suicide and why that matters

Philippa Taylor considers the implications of the Royal College of Physicians' assisted suicide consultation
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