Tag: Opinion

A new milestone in irresponsible media reporting of suicide
A severely disabled man from Wiltshire is to ask the High Court to allow a doctor to end his life.
Emmerdale actors Pauline Quirke and Danny Miller - who were at the heart of a controversial assisted suicide storyline in the soap - have been shortlisted for a string of gongs at this year's Inside Soap Awards.
Disabled people are being put under much more pressure in the current social and economic climate.
The Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer acknowledged that no prosecutions had been made since CPS guidelines were given a year and a half ago. All cases of assisted suicide are considered personally by the DPP.
Care Not Killing warns of dangers of 'copycat suicide' following screening of BBC programme
and this saccharine portrayal of assisted suicide appals me
further evidence of corporation bias and runs risk of fuelling more suicides, says Care Not Killing
BBC accused of being 'cheerleader for assisted suicide' after filming man killing himself in Terry Pratchett documentary
Care Not Killing responds to the Nan Maitland assisted suicide
'I wouldn't want viewers to come away from Emmerdale thinking that having a spinal cord injury is depressing.' Matt King
This partisan body won't be assisting anyone; Nor will I assist it. The Commission on Assisted Dying is a wolf in sheep's clothing
under fire. CNK declines to give evidence.
'...even a life lived at the extremes of disability is not one jot less precious than the life of an able-bodied person.' Lord Judge