Jersey politicians will vote on assisted suicide legislation this week, including whether to allow conscientious objection.

Liz Carr’s documentary Better Off Dead? aired on BBC One last night. Carr is an actor and disability rights campaigner who has opposed assisted suicide for many years.

“If there’s a change in the law to allow assisted suicide, we’ll be crossing a line”, says Father Andrew Bishop, the priest in charge at Croydon Minster in the London Borough of Croydon.

Actress and disability rights campaigner Liz Carr will make the case against “terrifying” assisted suicide in a BBC documentary next week on Tuesday 14th.

14 May 2023 started as a normal day for Peter, 74, and Patricia (pictured), who live in Middlesex. Peter is a retired civil servant and Patricia is a freelance tutor.v

Legalised assisted suicide threatens the vulnerable and is impossible to control. That is the experience of countries that have introduced the practice according to its opponents. In a packed Westminster Hall, MPs from across the political spectrum warned that changing the law would radically alter the provision of healthcare and…

Support in Scotland for assisted suicide in non-terminal cases continues to decline, recent polling shows, as the nation considers legalisation that SPUC says is “out of step with public opinion”.

A Belgian health insurance boss has championed assisted suicide because it will save taxpayer money and free up hospital and care home spaces.

A 28-year-old Dutch woman suffering from depression is to be euthanised after being told by her psychiatrist that there’s nothing else that can be done to treat her.

MSP Liam McArthur’s assisted suicide bill for Scotland, tabled today, has been slammed by SPUC as constituting a “death warrant” for the vulnerable.

A patient who received assisted suicide drugs last year in the US state of Oregon took 137 hours to die, nearly six days, an annual report has stated, while also revealing that many people choose death because they cannot afford healthcare.

A pro-assisted suicide group in France has caused outrage after it used an image of Princess Diana’s wrecked car in which she was fatally wounded in 1997.

SPUC is urging supporters to submit a complaint to the BBC following its biased reporting on an assisted suicide committee report.

Canada has delayed controversial plans to extend assisted suicide to mentally ill Canadians after failing to find enough doctors to implement the policy.

An English Anglican priest has written an open letter to his elderly mother who is considering assisted suicide to explain why “I don’t want to live in that sort of a society”. When a nation opens that “Pandora’s box of nastiness”, Reverend Giles Fraser warns, “it is the most vulnerable…