The aim of ALERT is to warn people of the dangers of any type of euthanasia legislation and pro-death initiatives. These include the promotion of Living Wills and Advance Directives, which create a climate for the acceptance of euthanasia.

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ALERT was founded in December 1991 to provide well-documented information on these and related issues, and to defend the lives and rights of the medically vulnerable, recognising that all human beings are of equal value.

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A very good piece by Wesley J. Smith in response to the recent remarks by Martin Amis.

An excellent piece by Dominic Lawson in The Independent. It's one of the few sane articles in the current media frenzy concerning the lobby for assisted suicide.

From: Daily Telegraph

By Christopher Hope and Kate Devlin

Mr Starmer on Wednesday published a list of factors which will help lawyers to decide whether to charge people for assisting suicide.

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From: Times online

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From: Daily Mail

Like a pop star plugging his latest record, the blokeish Director of Public Prosecutions does the rounds of the Press and TV studios to promote his guidelines on assisted suicide.

Keir Starmer QC, named after the socialist pioneer Keir Hardie, is New Labour to his fingertips: Guardian-reading, media-savvy and a strong believer in fashionable liberal causes.

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From: Daily Telegraph

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Statement by Susan Glyn, F.R.S.A., Barrister at Law, Chairman of ALERT

19 September 2009

The Director of Public Prosecutions, Mr Keir Starmer, stated in the Daily Telegraph (August 4th 2009) that he would publish an "interim policy" on Assisted Suicide this month.

Is the DPP proposing to apply his three criteria:

1. After an assisted suicide? In that case they have no legal validity because the true facts could not be ascertained. Dead men tell no tales.
   
   

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From: Daily Telegraph

Guidelines on assisted suicide law will be published this week by Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions, to clarify when people were likely to be prosecuted.

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