Please find below Living and Dying Well’s submission to the Health and Social Care Committee during their inquiry into assisted … Read More
Response to the Health and Social Care Committee Report
Please find below Living and Dying Well’s press release responding to the Health and Social Care Committee’s report into assisted … Read More
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
Lord Falconer reintroduces ‘Assisted Dying’ Bill.
Lord Falconer’s latest Bill has received its First Reading in the House of Lords Lord Falconer has reintroduced his ‘Assisted … Read More
Legalising ‘assisted dying’ would have been putting the cart before the horse.
Guernsey has focused on care of the dying rather than on giving them help with suicide The States of Guernsey, … 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
High Court Judgment in the case of Mr Noel Conway.
English law on assisting suicide is compatible with the European Convention on Human Rights. On 5 October 2017 the High … Read More