“Making assisted dying legal would alter the way society weighs the value of human life forever”. In a comment piece … Read More
Safeguarding Choice: A draft assisted dying bill for consultation.
This document, which includes a draft bill seeking to legalise ‘assisted dying’ (ie physician-assisted suicide), was published in July 2012 by the … Read More
House of Commons debate on prosecuting policy in cases of assisted suicide.
Mr Ottaway’s Motion Carried as Modified by Mrs Bruce’s Amendment. On 27 March 2012 Richard Ottaway MP (Conservative Croydon South) introduced … Read More
A report which has not seriously moved the debate forward.
Living and Dying Well publishes its analysis of the report of the ‘Commission on Assisted Dying’ Most of the report … 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
Assisted Suicide (Scotland) Bill.
A revised proposal by Margo MacDonald for the legalisation in Scotland of physician-assisted suicide. In 2010 MSP Margo MacDonald’s “End … Read More
Commission on Assisted Dying: ‘The current legal status of assisted dying is inadequate and incoherent….”
Results of the inquiry led by the Commission on Assisted Dying At the end of 2010 a ‘commission on assisted … 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
Sick people need help to live, not help to die.
Proposals on assisted dying by Lord Falconer are not supported by the medical profession. On the day that Lord Falconer’s self-styled commission … Read More
This debate needs hard evidence and reasoned analysis, not soundbites and spin.
Today a report by Lord Carlile QC and Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (‘Parliament needs evidence, not soundbites or spin’) addresses a … Read More