If ‘assisted dying’ is a matter for society and not for the medical profession, it is society, through the courts, … Read More
Who speaks for British doctors?
The BMJ’s one-sided coverage of a complex subject is as sad as it is predictable Senior palliative care doctors have … Read More
Year 20 report on Oregon’s ‘Death with Dignity Act’.
The latest report from the Oregon Health Authority on the outturn of Oregon’s physician-assisted suicide law. The Oregon Health Authoity … Read More
Just how Terminal is Terminal?
Recent admissions by the Oregon Health Authority suggest that that State’s physician-assisted suicide law may have wider parameters that has … Read More
A book that brings us face to face with ourselves.
“Open discussion reduces superstition and fear, and allows us to be honest with each other at a time when pretence … Read More
True cost? or true facts?
Living and Dying Well responds to a recent document published by campaigners for physician-assisted suicide. In November 2017 the campaigning … Read More
Commitment to the facts is needed.
This is a serious matter calling for careful weighing of the evidence and with no place for politically-motivated scaremongering Writing … Read More
New Zealand Medical Association reports on assisted suicide and euthanasia.
‘Doctors should remain cautious about any change in the law’. The New Zealand Medical Association (NZMA) has today published a … Read More
Asia-Pacific Hospice Group condemns ‘Assisted Dying’.
Licensing doctors to administer or supply lethal drugs to seriously-ill patients has no place in the practice of health care … Read More
Washington State – legalised physician-assisted suicide in 2016.
Deaths from PAS show a 15.7 per cent increase on 2015 Washington State has published its report on the operation of its … Read More