Personal Views

This section of our website highlights the personal perspectives of different individuals on the impact of assisted suicide, from all sides of the debate.

Living and Dying Well Personal Views

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Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill Consultation Response

An Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults Bill has been proposed in Scotland by Liam McArthur MSP....

Baroness Meacher’s Assisted Dying Bill: Analysis of the Second Reading Debate

The Assisted Dying Bill introduced to the House of Lords by Baroness Meacher received its Second....
Man wearing blue scrub suit and mask sitting on a bench

Can doctors really be neutral on assisted dying?

The BMA's decision to adopt a position of neutrality on the vexed question of 'assisted dying' was....

Briefing for Doctors: Assisted Dying and Medical Practice

Assisted Dying legislation has enormous impacts for medical practice. A great responsibility rests....

Canada Continues Down a Dangerous Path: The 2020 MAiD Report

This summer, Health Canada released the second annual report on Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD)....

Truths and Half Truths about Assisted Dying

In a booklet published recently Living and Dying Well examines the statements made by the....

Worcestershire man with MND does not support a change in the law.

John King is ready to die and has opted to have his treatment withdrawn Ludlow and Tenbury Wells....

No decision about me without me.

If ‘assisted dying’ is a matter for society and not for the medical profession, it is....

Paralysed man joins right-to-die battle.

A man almost entirely paralysed in a road accident 23 years ago has won a legal fight to join the....

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