The BMA’s decision to adopt a position of neutrality on the vexed question of ‘assisted dying’ was taken following a … Read More
Briefing for Doctors: Assisted Dying and Medical Practice
Assisted Dying legislation has enormous impacts for medical practice. A great responsibility rests on the shoulders of those attending the … Read More
Canada Continues Down a Dangerous Path: The 2020 MAiD Report
This summer, Health Canada released the second annual report on Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD). The report contains several warning-signs … Read More
Truths and Half Truths about Assisted Dying
In a booklet published recently Living and Dying Well examines the statements made by the campaigning group Dignity in Dying … Read More
Worcestershire man with MND does not support a change in the law.
John King is ready to die and has opted to have his treatment withdrawn Ludlow and Tenbury Wells Advertiser has … Read More
No decision about me without me.
If ‘assisted dying’ is a matter for society and not for the medical profession, it is society, through the courts, … Read More
Paralysed man joins right-to-die battle.
A man almost entirely paralysed in a road accident 23 years ago has won a legal fight to join the … Read More
The Liverpool Care Pathway to dignity in death.
“My grandfather’s lingering demise shows why we need protocols for palliative care”. Dr Max Pemberton recalls his grandfather’s experience of … Read More
Don’t push me onto the death path, doc.
Patient resistance is growing to an NHS ‘care pathway’ for the terminally ill that critics fear is euthanasia by the … Read More
Should we change the law to license assisted dying for the terminally ill?
Professor Raymond Tallis and Baroness Elizabeth Butler-Sloss argue the case for and against. In The Times Raymond Tallis and Baroness Butler-Sloss … Read More
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