Claud Regnard, retired consultant in palliative care medicine,Rob George, professor of palliative care, andAmy Profitt, head of medicine, confront the BMJ and ask “Why is The BMJ misrepresenting assisted dying?” And insist that “Legislatures such as Oregon’s are not...
Claud Regnard, retired consultant in palliative care medicine,
Assisted Suicide: The wisdom of the late Jonathan Sacks: “ The Jewish tradition, going back many centuries, is strongly opposed to such acts…”
Assisted Suicide: The wisdom of the late Jonathan Sacks: “ The Jewish tradition, going back many centuries, is strongly opposed to such acts… those who propose (legislation ) do so from the highest of motives. But purity of motive has never ensured rightness of...
Former Health Minister, Lord Hunt, Opposes Assisted Dying Bill.
COMMENT: Daily Telegraph Assisted dying will always be open to bullying and exploitation The process cannot be made safe because the ill will be exposed to fears of being a burden or to pressure from unscrupulous relatives LORD HUNT 3 October 2021...
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...
Henry George “Pain is not a justification for assisted dying.”
Pain is not a justification for assisted dying The case of Alta Fixsler strikes at the heart of debates around life and death The Fixsler family The case of Alta Fixsler, a young girl born with catastrophic brain damage, leaves one with a sense of deep...
Dr Joel Zivot, warns that his research on drugs used in lethal injections lead to a ““very painful death”.
Dr Joel Zivot, Associate Professor of Anaesthesiology and Surgery at the Emory School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, warns that his research on drugs used in lethal injections showed that they led to a “very painful death” and that assisted suicide is “neither...
Today’s Telegraph- why “Assisted dying is a crude response to suffering” and why “Given the epidemic of suicides in the UK – around 6,000 per year – it would seem unwise to take action that might increase this number”
Assisted dying is a crude response to suffering SIR – It’s simply not true that people are denied control at the end of their lives under the current law (Letters, June 3).The law is framed to give clear rights to refuse unwanted intervention. Helping people do...
Professor Katherine Sleeman on why helping people to commit suicide is not in society’s interests and crosses a dangerous line.
Professor Katherine Sleeman writing today in The Daily Telegraph SIR – We have been told that public sentiment is now behind changing the law on assisted dying (report, June 1), with a recent opinion poll finding that 84 per cent support legalisation. However, polls...
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...
New report calls for overdue radical improvements in end of life palliative care – providing a new gold standard of “hospice quality” care in all settings focusing on those dying at home.
New report calls for overdue radical improvements in end of life palliative care - providing a new gold standard of “hospice quality” care in all settings focusing on those dying at home. In a major new report today the Institute of Public Policy Research say that the...
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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In advance of a debate on April 25th on how UK aid is used to support minorities in Pakistan, Government responds to my Question on why Ahmadi Muslims were not included on the single electoral list with all other voters in the recent elections in that country
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL3227): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool.:To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord...
As senior officials in Hong Kong remain unsanctioned by the UK, Ministers say they have “urged the authorities” and HSBC Trustees to release savings of escapees; that “Article 23 of Hong Kong’s Basic Law, enacted on 23 March is likely incompatible with international human rights law and will have a negative impact on the people of Hong Kong in the exercise of their rights and freedoms”; and have “noted the allegation that some evidence to be used to prosecute Jimmy Lai had been obtained through the torture of Andy Li.”
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL3229): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool:To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will take steps to impose...
Reply to Question in Parliament about whether the UK Government will allow British National (Overseas) visa holders to voluntarily pay up to 15 years’ worth of Class 3 national insurance contributions towards a state pension, in cases where such visa holders have been denied access to their Mandatory Provident Fund pension savings by HSBC
Baroness Vere of Norbiton, Treasury, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL3506): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool:To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will allow British National (Overseas) visa holders to voluntarily...