Official annual report on the practice of euthanasia and assisted suicide in The Netherlands in 2012. This is the annual report for … Read More
Mental capacity and assisted suicide.
To what extent can mental capacity be reliably assessed in patients seeking physician-assisted suicide? In a report published today, psychiatrist … Read More
More care, less pathway.
A Review of the Liverpool Care Pathway Early in 2013 Norman Lamb MP, Minister of State for Care Support, asked … Read More
Of sound mind for suicide?
Mental capacity assessment is challenging enough at the best of times: to ask doctors to do it with a patient’s … Read More
A report that raises some questions.
Washington State’s latest report on physician-assisted suicide prompts questions about the reliability of prognosis of terminal illness We now have the … Read More
A bill “not fit for purpose”.
Lack of transparency raises doubts about ‘assisted dying’ bill We are repeatedly told by those who want to see assisted … Read More
Another ‘Assisted Dying’ Bill: Does it pass the public safety test?
An Analysis of the Assisted Dying Bill. Lord Falconer’s Assisted Dying Bill had its First Reading in the House of Lords … Read More
An important issue in the ‘assisted dying’ debate.
The Times has raised an important issue in the ‘assisted dying’ debate An editorial in The Times, “Death and the … Read More
Another ‘assisted dying’ bill: Careful analysis needed.
Lord Falconer has presented his long-heralded Private Member’s Bill to Parliament Lord Falconer’s long-heralded bill to legalise physician-assisted suicide for terminally … Read More
Assisting a patient’s suicide is not part of a doctor’s role.
“Laws have to be designed to work safely in the real world,” writes Baroness Finlay in The Times In an … Read More