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Parents fight doctors for son's right to life

News Items | Submitted on 10/03/2009

The parents of a nine-month-old boy who is being kept alive on a ventilator have gone to the High Court to fight for his right to life.

Frpm the Telegraph.

By Caroline Gammell
10 Mar 2009

Terminally ill opt for suicide by starvation

News Items | Submitted on 08/03/2009

From The Sunday Times

March 8, 2009

Given no other way to end their lives, patients are choosing an Euthanasia agonising death with the help of GPs

New treatment guidelines mean doctors must follow wishes of terminally-ill patients

News Items | Submitted on 07/03/2009

From Mail Online.

By Steve Doughty
7th March 2009

'End of life care': New guidelines state that doctors must discuss all options with terminally-ill patients, including refusing treatment and turning off life-support machines

Peter Saunders

News Items | Submitted on 21/02/2009

There is a tendency to see the legalisation or physician assisted suicide (PAS) solely in terms of Individual rights and to Ignore the Impact of such a radical change in the law on society, including both the health care system and the community as a whole. Care Not Killing recently published an extensive review on this controversial issue. The CNK website is kept regularly updated with reviews, articles and news stories on the theme of promoting palliative care and opposing assisted suicide.

'Right to die' can become a 'duty to die'

News Items | Submitted on 21/02/2009

From Daily Telegraph

By Wesley Smith
21 Feb 2009

Here Come the Assisted Suicide Bills

Assisted Dying Bill | News Items | Submitted on 03/02/2009

Second Hand Smoke

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Switching off cancer patient's life support machine was 'premature', anaesthetist said

News Items | Submitted on 30/01/2009

By Chris Brooke
Daily Mail, 27 January 2009

Inquest: Stephen Kettley, 52, may have recovered if his ventilator was kept on

A cancer patient who died after his life support was switched off might have had a chance of getting better, an inquest was told yesterday.

Coroners and Justice Bill

News Items | Submitted on 30/01/2009

The First Reading of the Government’s Coroners and Justice Bill will be on 15th January 2009. The law on assisted suicide is to be “simplified”. Amendments could be put forward, in due course.

Members of “Dignity in Dying” have been requested to ask their M.P.s to sign Early Day Motion 230, which “expresses concern that some terminally ill adults end their suffering by travelling abroad to die.”

Montana Assisted Suicide Advocate Made Up Quote by Plaintiff

News Items | Submitted on 10/12/2008

The media usually report the assisted suicide agenda by, basically, printing the proponents' press releases and pretending that it is objective news. But sometimes, it comes back to bite them, as when the PR is mendacious.

It's how you live, not how you die

News Items | Submitted on 09/12/2008

From The Times
December 9, 2008

Times reader Tudor Spencer, whose wife has multiple sclerosis, argues that people should live for today, instead of fixating on the end

When my wife Hilary was told that she had multiple sclerosis more than 25 years ago there were no articles about sufferers seeking assisted suicide. If there had been, perhaps we would have started to think about putting boundaries around our commitment to life and to each other. Perhaps we would have had discussions about at what stage Hilary might have “had enough” or at what point it would become “unfair” to ask me to support her.