Oct 7, 2021
Baroness Meacher’s Assisted Dying Bill proposes to license doctors to supply lethal drugs to terminally ill patients who are thought to have six months or less to live, and who seem to them to meet broadly worded conditions. In their letter to Parliamentarians,...
Oct 5, 2021
Assisted suicide advocates propagate the myth that only a lethal cocktail of drugs can deliver a beautiful and serene death. However, the reality is that assisted suicide is often neither painless nor dignified. Journalist Simon Caldwell writes that, although some...
Sep 28, 2021
Miro Griffiths, Leverhulme Research Fellow in Disability Studies at the University of Leeds, writes in The Press and Journal that assisted dying would undermine existing disability policy and legislative frameworks that aspire to protect disabled people’s...
Sep 28, 2021
Writing in the BJGP Life, Dr Claud Regnard, Honorary Consultant in Palliative Care Medicine at St Oswold’s Hospice in Newcastle, and colleagues discuss the safety and efficacy of the drugs used for assisted suicide. It is not clear which drug or drug combination is...
Sep 3, 2021
The APPG on Dying Well promotes access to excellent palliative care and stands against the legalisation of assisted suicide in the UK. We are holding a meeting online on Tuesday 7th September at 7pm. In our next meeting we will be hearing about medical...
Aug 4, 2021
Writing in the critic, James Mildred recounts the experience of Tom Mortimer, whose mother was euthanised in Belgium by doctors who had deemed her depression as “untreatable”. He points to the undeniable evidence of a slippery slope in other jurisdictions...
