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DVD INTERVIEWS

These interviews are a contribution to the debate on euthanasia and physician assisted suicide. The people speaking in these interviews have real experience of the issues and express the views of Care Not Killing, an alliance of organisations and individuals committed to promoting palliative care and opposing attempts to legalise assisted dying in the UK.

The interviews are available on DVD. A copy of the DVD is given to those who join Care Not Killing. For more details, click here

About the DVD:
Watch the introduction to the interviews.

Dr Jeff Stephenson, Consultant in Palliative Medicine:
"My fear at the moment is that this country is going down, or risks going down the route of assisted dying with its eyes closed."

Prof John Wyatt, Professor in Neonatal Paediatrics:
"What is happening today is that Lord Joffe's bill is suggesting to toss away, almost in a casual way, two thousand years of a tradition that doctors would only be dedicated to healing."

Dr Mark Cheeseman, Consultant Geriatrician:
"I have no hesitation in saying [assisted dying] would introduce a lot of difficulties."

Prof Tim Maughan, Consultant Clinical Oncologist:
"In my own hospital we are uniformly against [assisted dying]. None of us would like to see the law changed."

Dr Kathryn Myers, Consultant in Palliative Medicine:
"There will be patients who are vulnerable and at risk who need protection from the law; from undue pressure being brought upon them."

Ilora Baroness Finlay, Professor in Palliative Medicine:
"What is proposed is not whether you personally can commit suicide. it is whether your doctor can act to kill you."