Posts tagged
assisted suicide
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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.
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After a debate last week that threatened to derail the passage of the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults Bill, the sponsors of the controversial legislation will be hoping for a better outcome this Friday as Peers gather for the second day of the crucial debate.
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The future of the Leadbeater assisted suicide Bill seems uncertain, as Peer after Peer stood up to oppose it on the first day of debate in the House of Lords.
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This data from New Zealand emphasises pro‑life concerns about a widening “slippery slope”.
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Colombia remains the only nation in Latin America where euthanasia is legal.
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This is a move which can only be seen as a direct attack on the value of disabled lives.
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Following the tragic vote on the assisted suicide bill, many questions are still left unanswered. Questions which strike at the very heart of why Kim Leadbeater’s bill is so dangerous.
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Over 300 student doctors from across the UK have voiced their opposition to MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill, that passed its vote at Third Reading this afternoon. “We write not only as future doctors, but as the next generation of advocates for patient care and safety”, they said in…