A new poll, commissioned by Living and Dying Well, has found the British public believe there are too many ‘complicating … Read More
Revisiting the Mackay Committee into Assisted Dying
In 2005, the House of Lords Select Committee on the Assisted Dying Bill for the Terminally Ill Bill presented its … Read More
Submission of Evidence to the Northern Territory Government, Australia
Please see below Living and Dying Well’s submission of evidence to the Northern Territory’s (Australia) consultation into assisted dying. You … Read More
Submission to the Health and Social Care Committee
Please find below Living and Dying Well’s submission to the Health and Social Care Committee during their inquiry into assisted … Read More
Baroness Meacher’s Assisted Dying Bill: Analysis of the Second Reading Debate
The Assisted Dying Bill introduced to the House of Lords by Baroness Meacher received its Second Reading on 22nd October. … Read More
Safeguards – What Safeguards?
In our second podcast Robert Preston examines the so-called safeguards of legalised assisted dying.
Parliament or the Courts?
Changing the law on assisted suicide is a matter for Parliament A few weeks ago former Justice of the Supreme … Read More
Lord Sumption on assisted suicide: What did he really say?
A critical analysis of claims that Lord Sumption implied that our law is ‘broken’. In the first of his Reith Lectures this … 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John King is ready to die and has opted to have his treatment withdrawn Ludlow and Tenbury Wells Advertiser has … Read More
A Welcome Judgment by the Court of Appeal.
The existing law achieves a fair balance between individual autonomy and protection of the community The Court of Appeal has … Read More