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
What if…. ‘Assisted Dying’ were to be legalised?
If we are wise, we will learn from the experience of others rather than from our own mistakes In an article published … Read More
Assisting suicide is not a role for doctors.
On 21 June the British Medical Association, at its Annual Representative Meeting, rejected a Motion that its policy of opposition … Read More
BMA reaffirms its opposition to physician-assisted suicide.
The BMA has rejected a Motion that it should adopt a policy of neutrality on whether ‘assisted dying’ should be … Read More
A thoughtful report which deserves careful consideration.
The BMA’s End-of Life Care and Physician-Assisted Dying report contains much valuable material and warrants careful study. The BMA has … Read More
The BMA should resist attempts to neutralise it in the ‘Assisted Dying’ debate.
Attempts to push the BMA into a position of neutrality on legalisation of assisted suicide are in reality attempts to … Read More
First, do no harm.
Doctors should stand up the the assisted suicide lobby, says The Daily Telegraph. In an editorial The Daily Telegraph has commented on … Read More