Tag Archive for: assisted suicide

The role of the media in shaping the UK debate on ‘assisted dying’

Just over a year ago I was commissioned to write a review article about the role of the media in shaping…

CNK welcomes MPs endorsement of palliative care

Care Not Killing has today welcomed MPs’ decision to encourage further development of specialist…

Shroud of secrecy surrounds assisted suicide in Oregon

I was doing an interview on BBC Radio Wales this am on the Ottaway debate when a spokesman for Dignity…

Case of locked-in syndrome seeks to establish dangerous precedent

Legal action brought by a locked-in syndrome sufferer, who wants a doctor to be able to end his ‘intolerable’…

Government blocks attempt to fetter DPP

Last night the House of Lords discussed assisted suicide. The one hour dinner debate, in which 30 peers…

Update on assisted suicide and euthanasia from Care Not Killing

Falconer Commission Lord Falconer’s Commission on Assisted Dying reported on 5 January 2012 predictably…

Tony Nicklinson – there are limits to choice in a free society

  As reported in the Guardian, Telegraph and Huffington Post, Tony Nicklinson, a 57 year old…

Significance of Dignitas assisted suicide deaths greatly overhyped

An article in the Daily Telegraph this morning attempts to make news of the fact that figures from Dignitas,…

Lessons from Stephen Hawking and Kathryn Higham about assisted suicide

Congratulations to Stephen Hawking (pictured), internationally renowned Cambridge physicist, who turned…
,

Five quick videos on the Falconer Commission on ‘Assisted Dying’ – What is it all about?

5 January 2012 marked the launch of the findings of the Commission on Assisted Dying, proposed by Dignity…

  • 6 Marshalsea Road, London SE1 1HL

© 2024 Christian Medical Fellowship. A company limited by guarantee. Registered in England no. 6949436. Registered Charity no. 1131658. Design: S2 Design