Assisted suicide will save the Canadian health care system up to $136.8 million a year, claims a study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. SPUC has slammed the suggestion as “heartless utilitarianism” that must be rejected.

Alastair Hamilton, 47, a chemistry teacher from London, paid £10,000 to a Swiss organisation called Pegasos to purchase his death via lethal injection. His family only found out about the circumstances of his death after the police checked his bank account in search for answers.

A cancer patient in Canada has been granted assisted suicide within days after waiting ten weeks to get through a chemotherapy “backlog”.

Ellen Clifford has warned that the disabled have been excluded from the assisted suicide debate, “a not insignificant group of people whose lives are directly threatened by [such] legalisation”.

There were 13,500 state-sanctioned assisted suicides in Canada in 2022, a projection anticipates in the run-up to the official release of statistics in July.

A Canadian veteran of the war in Afghanistan says it is “disgusting, unacceptable and infuriating” that ex-soldiers suffering from PTSD have been offered assisted suicide in Canada.

Great British Bake Off judge Dame Prue Leith has been told that legislative proposals to legalise assisted suicide in Scotland will put the “vulnerable at risk of coercion”.

The American Medical Association (AMA) has rejected attempts to change the group’s stance against assisted suicide, asserting that the AMA will continue to oppose assisted suicide.

SPUC has expressed feelings of deep sadness following the death of eight-month-old baby Indi Gregory, who died after having her life support removed.

Assisted suicide surged by almost a third again in 2022 in Canada, where state-sanctioned suicide claimed the lives of 13,241 Canadians, of whom a third said they feared being a burden on family and friends. SPUC warns that “the UK must wake up to the mortal danger that assisted suicide…

The Danish Ethics Council has recommended that euthanasia should remain illegal in Denmark, having concluded that it is “in principle impossible to establish proper regulation of euthanasia”.

Liz Carr, a noted disability rights campaigner, is to write and present a BBC documentary on the dangers of assisted suicide.

An official memo has been passed on to doctors in the Canadian province of Quebec requesting they respect the limits of the law regarding assisted suicide. The warning follows a massive 54% rise in assisted suicides in Quebec between 2021 and 2022, and potentially 15 wrongful deaths.

A Canadian veteran of the war in Afghanistan says it is “disgusting, unacceptable and infuriating” that ex-soldiers suffering from PTSD have been offered assisted suicide in Canada.