Oct 22, 2021
The Assisted Dying Bill proceeded from its Second Reading in the House of Lords today – in spite of over 60 Peers speaking to oppose the Bill – as is convention. It is the accepted custom of the House of Lords for Bills to move to Committee Stage without a...
Oct 5, 2021
James Mumford, visiting fellow at the McDonald Centre at Oxford University, argues that the assisted suicide debate is a contest over the meaning of this word: ‘dignity’. This term is used again and again within assisted suicide organisations and...
Sep 28, 2021
Writing in The Times, Chair of the APPG for Dying Well, Danny Kruger MP, says assisted suicide is not the solution to suffering at the end of life. While assisted suicide is portrayed by its advocates as a peaceful, painless way to die, in jurisdictions were assisted...
Sep 14, 2021
Responding to the BMA vote on assisted suicide, Danny Kruger MP, chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Dying Well, said: “That even the most activist doctors group could not muster a majority for neutrality on assisted suicide shows just how unpopular it...
Apr 7, 2021
In the latest podcast released by Living and Dying Well Baroness Ilora Finlay, a palliative medicine professor, discusses end of life care, doctor-patient trust and the right to die in our latest podcast. Watch or listen here:...
Mar 27, 2021
What does dying well look like? The best way to answer that question is with real human stories of the last days of life. Dr Kathryn Mannix, a palliative care doctor for the last thirty years, has written With the End in Mind, to capture the wisdom of death and dying...
