Nov 17, 2021
The APPG has launched an investigation into whether assisted suicide protocols used around the world can lead to distressing or prolonged deaths. The investigation follows recent articles in the Daily Mail and Spectator that have raised concerns about practice in...
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
Research published in the journal Palliative and Supportive Care finds that participation in assisted suicide often causes significant emotional and psychological distress for clinicians. In a review of nine peer-reviewed articles published between 1980 and 2018 from...
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 11, 2021
Assisted suicide proponents have made several claims about assisted dying and disability in attempts to suggest that disabled persons support a change in the law and such legislation would be compatible with respect and support for the disabled community. The reality...
