Nov 3, 2021
Research published in the journal Palliative Medicine shows that palliative care development has stalled in countries where assisted suicide and euthanasia is legal. The study conducted by Natalia Arias-Casais and Colleagues analyses palliative care provision between...
Nov 3, 2021
A study conducted by a group of physicians in Canada reveals the detrimental impact that the legalisation of assisted suicide has on palliative care. In their 2020 qualitative study, Matthews and Colleagues interviewed palliative care physicians and nurses who...
Nov 1, 2021
In cases of assisted suicide, do patients really have rational autonomy? In their recent article in The Psychiatric Times, Psychiatrists Dr. Ronald Pies and Dr. Cynthia Geppert challenge the commonly-held belief that patients who request assisted suicide are acting...
Oct 30, 2021
In considering the legalisation of Assisted Suicide in Britain, it is not only the ethical implications of such legislation that must be considered but also the physical details of what it really means to be ‘assisted’ to die. In this regard, journalist...
Oct 28, 2021
As someone with a progressive condition herself, Baroness Jane Campbell writes in The Guardian that she can sympathise with those who support the assisted suicide bill out of fear of pain and suffering. She writes, “I’ve been close to death many times because my...
Oct 28, 2021
Last week, Melanie McDonagh wrote in The Spectator that there are no safeguards when it comes to assisted suicide and euthanasia. After listening to Baroness Meacher’s interview on BBC radio Today, in which she admitted that while some old people may want to die...
