The Times: Assisted dying Sir, Your headline “Four fifths of anaesthetists back assisted dying” (Scotland edition, Sep 14) fails to accurately reflect the questions asked. None of these asked “do you personally support assisted dying”, rather delegates were asked...
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Some important letters in The Times setting out the case against euthanasia and for retaining a law that provides safety for the vulnerable. Professor Sleeman writes: “Arguments around legalisation for assisted dying obscure the more pressing concern: that high-quality palliative care must be available to everyone who needs it.”
Tuesday September 19 2023, 12.01am, The Times Sir, You report that 632 Britons have died in suicide clinics in Switzerland and that up to 650 dying people end their own lives every year in the UK (thetimes.co.uk, Sep 15). But is the situation in Switzerland any...
Assisted Suicide: Hugely experienced Medical Professor explains why well meaning supporters of euthanasia will open the door to terrifying consequences: “To legalise assisted dying is to normalise it, creating no small pressure – real or perceived – on the frail and the sick to take this ‘choice’. It is no coincidence that support for assisted dying is consistently lowest among the elderly and the disabled.”
Assisted Suicide: Hugely experienced Medical Professor explains why well meaning supporters of euthanasia will open the door to terrifying consequences The Spectator: Slippery arguments Sir: Dr Meirion Thomas (Letters, 29 July) rehearses the usual arguments in...
Child euthanasia – the next stop on the slippery slope – Remarks delivered to Oxford University Students – May 16th, 2023
Child euthanasia - the next stop on the slippery slope Remarks delivered to Oxford University Students – May 16th, 2023 David Alton – Lord Alton of Liverpool I want you to imagine Marie. It’s 2025 and Marie is a 15 year old Canadian girl. Three months ago her...
Euthanasia and the law of unintended consequences. Speech given in Seoul on how Euthanasia becomes a deadly and dangerous contagion which threatens the safety of the vulnerable, compromises medics, gets driven by economics, deeply affects society and becomes a runaway train.
https://twitter.com/davidaltonhl/status/1625114428449427457?s=46&t=PcPxpstvx9j7yrAJdj2eyg I Euthanasia and the law of unintended consequences. Speech given in Seoul on how Euthanasia becomes a deadly and dangerous contagion which threatens the safety of the...
Letters to The Times from Lord Carlile KC and Lord Singh urging caution before legislating for assisted suicide/euthanasia – warning that so called safeguards aren’t worth the paper on which they are written
The Times: Letters 5th January 2023 END-OF-LIFE REVIEWSir, Unlike Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood (Thunderer, Jan 2), I believe that the Commons health and social care committee is asking the right foundation question as the first stage in its review of the law...
Nurse tells The Scotsman that legislators should focus on end-of-life care not euthanasia. She says “Compassionate assisted dying goes on every day in our hospitals and care homes” and should be better resourced. Changing the law would make more funding less likely and “be a dreadful mistake.”
The report from Marie Curie headed “Terminally ill dying in pain out of hours” (Scotsman, 29 November) highlighted the urgent need for a fully resourced palliative care system with appropriately trained staff and not legislation for assisted death. The report led to...
‘Disturbing’: Experts troubled by Canada’s euthanasia laws – Report by The Associated Press…..After reading this, U.K. advocates of euthanasia, who tell us we need laws like Canada’s, should be clear about the trajectory on which they would set us. And well meaning people should be careful about what they wish for.
‘Disturbing’: Experts troubled by Canada’s euthanasia laws By MARIA CHENG August 11, 2022 ‘Disturbing’: Experts troubled by Canada’s euthanasia laws - Report by The Associated Press…..After reading this, U.K. advocates of euthanasia, who tell us we need laws like...
Charles Moore is right that matters of conscience – like euthanasia – should not be slipped into Government Bills. And Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie, chief executive of Cerebral Palsy Scotland, says that a Bill about Health and Care should not be used to change the criminal law.
Charles Moore is right that matters of conscience - like euthanasia - should not be slipped into Government Bills. And Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie, chief executive of Cerebral Palsy Scotland, says that a Bill about Health and Care should not be used to change the...
Holland further liberalises its Euthanasia laws to allow more people with dementia to be euthanised.
Holland further liberalises its Euthanasia laws to allow more people with dementia to be euthanised. https://nltimes.nl/2021/12/02/dutch-doctors-group-issues-new-euthanasia-guidelines-concerning-people-dementia
In The Mallard Georgia L. Gilholy says “While many euthanasia campaigners are motivated by a genuine desire to reduce suffering, they are misled about what the true impact of this legal and cultural watershed would be.”
“Medicine Most Foul”: How Assisted Suicide Could Unravel Our Culture | Georgia L. Gilholy https://mallarduk.com/medicine-most-foul-how-assisted-suicide-could-unravel-our-culture-georgia-l-gilholy/ BY GEORGIA LEATHERDALE-GILHOLY · PUBLISHED OCTOBER 21,...
Powerful Statement by Michael Wenham – diagnosed twenty years ago with MND – and who opposes Assisted Suicide – says “I am still able to enjoy my limited life – and grateful that I wasn’t able to be tempted to opt for euthanasia on my first frightening diagnosis.”
I am writing to you to express my opposition to the legalisation of assisted suicide as Baroness Meacher’s bill comes before the Lords next week. You might be interested to read a previous Guardian article of mine on this topic here:...
Reasons For Opposing Euthanasia in Britain.
In a letter to The Daily Telegraph, Palliative Care Doctors Set Out Their Reasons For Opposing The Introduction of Assisted Suicide or Euthanasia in Britain Palliative care doctors against assisted dying sir – As the palliative care consultants of the next generation...
Three important letters in today’s Times warn of the serious dangers posed by the proposal to legalise assisted dying – euphemism for euthanasia.
Three important letters in today’s Times warn of the serious dangers posed by the proposal to legalise assisted dying - euphemism for euthanasia. Warnings from Professor Finlay, Professor George and Tanni Grey-Thompson deserve to be widely read and heeded.
Letter to The Sunday Times: Why people who have a religious faith have the same rights as anyone else to express a view about assisted dying and euthanasia. It’s called free speech.
Welsh politician, television presenter, and former wheelchair racer, Tanni (Baroness) Grey-Thompson is right in warning about “mission creep” towards euthanasia in the new assisted dying Bill and warns that “for many disabled people it’s not difficult to see the writing on the wall….To ignore this is to court danger.”
Dying mission creep SIR – Baroness Meacher’s Bill on assisted dying doesn’t explicitly target disabled people. But for many disabled people it’s not difficult to see the writing on the wall. I was struck by a statement a few years ago by a group calling itself the...
Dominic Lawson gets it in one: allow euthanasia and “Those who would be put at greatest risk are the most vulnerable; and their voices are never heard.”
Dominic Lawson looks at how Government Ministers looking to make financial savings may give a green light to euthanasia: Sunday Times May 9th 2021 Sometimes political developments that seem unconnected are deeply intertwined — and you don’t have to be a conspiracy...
Death by Appointment – important new book by (Baroness) Ilora Finlay and Robert Preston – which explores all the troubling issues around euthanasia/assisted suicide, including the role of doctors and the role of palliative care in ensuring a good death
"Death by Appointment" - is an important new book by (Baroness) Ilora Finlay and Robert Preston - which explores all the troubling issues around euthanasia/assisted suicide, including the role of doctors, and the place of palliative care in ensuring a good death Click...
New rules governing euthanasia in Holland ‘will allow doctors to spike patients’ drinks with sleeping pills to stop them becoming violent before lethal injections. Is that really what we want for the United Kingdom?
New rules governing euthanasia in Holland ‘will allow doctors to spike patients’ drinks with sleeping pills to stop them becoming violent before lethal injections’. This further relaxation of Hollands euthanasia laws follows ‘a court ruling that overturned a murder...
Letters to The Times from a leading U.K. lawyer and leading authorities on palliative care – along with a view from the hospices – outlining why it would put vulnerable people at risk to legalise euthanasia/assisted dying
Letters to The Times from a leading U.K. lawyer and leading authorities on palliative care - along with a view from the hospices - outlining why it would put vulnerable people at risk to legalise euthanasia/assisted dying GOOD PALLIATIVE CARE Sir, Judith Magill...
For 18 years David Alton was a Member of the House of Commons and today he is an Independent Crossbench Life Peer in the UK House of Lords.
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