Posts tagged
assisted suicide
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The vast majority of amendments to the Bill have been uniformly dismissed.
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The University of Technology Sydney has proposed to discontinue three postgraduate courses in palliative care in the wake of new assisted suicide law.
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Oral evidence to the Select Committee on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill concluded last week. Again, the expert witnesses voiced a range of concerns they have with the Bill. Here are some highlights.
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Tuesday, 4 November saw Liam McArthur’s Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill begin Stage 2 deliberations with crucial votes on safeguards, palliative care and the criteria for eligibility.
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The Select Committee hearing evidence about the Terminally Ill Adults Bill met again last week. Again, the expert witnesses drew out multiple problems with the Bill. Here are some highlights.
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Routh described himself as a “constant failure” and expressed a wish to be placed in a prison that allows what he called “medical aid in dying”.
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Patrick Harvie MSP, has proposed what critics describe as “totalitarian” plans to introduce abortion clinic-style buffer zones around locations where assisted suicide could take place.
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Venturing down ‘enemy territory lane’ and attending the Dignity in Dying (DiD) panel fringe event at the Conservative Party Conference.
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More than seventy people gathered recently to hear Dr Philip Nitschke speak about the methods and mechanics of suicide.
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Over the last two days, a special select committee in the House of Lords has been hearing oral evidence from expert witnesses on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.
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The absence of disabled peers has sparked strong criticism from disability rights groups and opponents of the bill, who argue that those most affected by assisted dying laws are being side-lined from the decision-making process.
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The number of people dying by euthanasia and assisted suicide in Queensland continues to rise sharply, with new figures showing 1,072 deaths under the state’s Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) law between July 2024 and June 2025.
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Supporters travelled from across the country to make their voices heard at Holyrood.
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A Polish-born actress who escaped a Nazi ghetto as a child died last weekend in Switzerland.
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After two days of intense debate with roughly 160 speakers, the consensus in the House of Lords is that the Leadbeater Bill cannot be passed in its current state.