Submission to the Health and Select Committee

Please find below LDW’s submission to the Health and Select Committee Inquiry on Assisted Suicide. Download it here.

Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology: Assisted Dying

This POSTbrief provides a brief overview of assisted dying, including ethical debate and stakeholder opinion. It examines how assisted dying … Read More

Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology: Palliative Care

Palliative and end of life care are increasingly in demand as people are living longer and with multiple long-term conditions. … Read More

Government will not launch inquiry into law on assisted suicide, says Lord Chancellor.

Robert Buckland QC also expressed personal worries about a change in the law. The Government has no plans to change … Read More

New Zealand Health Committee reports on ‘Assisted Dying’.

Response of the Health Committee to Petition 2014/18 of Hon. Maryan Street and Others. On 2 August 2017 the Health … Read More

NHS: Liverpool Care Pathway

In an oral answer to Baroness Knight of Collingtree, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Department of Health announces … Read More

Assisted dying: the harm in helping.

“Making assisted dying legal would alter the way society weighs the value of human life forever”. In a comment piece … Read More

Considering the evidence.

An analysis of the report of the Commission on Assisted Dying and of its published evidence. The self-styled Commission on … 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

Parliament needs evidence, not soundbites or spin.

Claims that legalising ‘assisted dying’ would be safe do not stand up to careful scrutiny. In this critique Professor Baroness … Read More