promoting care, opposing euthanasia

German rejection of assisted suicide welcomed
“Members of Parliament... should copy their German counterparts and reject any proposal to weaken our current laws.”

Quebec expands euthanasia law
Bill 11, approved this week, ushers in advance requests for illnesses like dementia, and curtails hospice conscience rights.

Manx split on assisted suicide: doctors respond
Manx Duty of Care responds to the results of the Consultation on Assisted Dying.

Oregon at 25: new highs, new lows
The assisted suicide law supposedly limited by a six-month prognosis now sees patients outlive this by five years, with individual doctors writing lethal prescriptions on a weekly basis.

Think tank report urges assisted suicide caution
The authors of "Physician-Assisted Suicide: Improving the Quality of the Debate" include a retired Supreme Court Justice, a former Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission a leading barrister

Euthanasia in Belgium - a son's story
Godelieva De Troyer had been suffering from chronic depression for twenty years when she was euthanised, her family unaware, by the doctor who co-chairs the federal euthanasia regulator and who co-founded an organisation De Troyer had just given money to.

Assisted suicide law 'would make me feel a burden'
Mark Blackwell, living with Parkinson's disease and the after-effects of a severe stroke, explains why he fears legalised assisted suicide

'Nobody said: "Why do you want to die?"'
Disability activist describes 'the thing that solidified for me that we actually can't safely put in place in this country assisted suicide legislation', as Western Australia mulls euthanasia

'So grateful there wasn't a change in the law'
CNK Board member Nola Leach speaks on Radio 4 about her husband's death after three years living with 'brutal' Alzheimer's

Kiwis speak: the threat to us
Watch ordinary New Zealanders explain why a proposed assisted suicide law would pose a direct threat to them and countless people like them