Assisted suicide usually involves a health practitioner prescribing a lethal dose for a person to administer themselves, usually by swallowing a combination of drugs.
In the United Kingdom, the Suicide Act 1961 legalised the attempt to take one’s own life, but it kept illegal the assistance of another’s death.
Assisted suicide is legal in a handful of jurisdictions globally including Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg and a small number of states in the US.
Right To Life UK campaigns against any attempt to legalise assisted suicide, and for the development of palliative care services and end of life care that remove any perceived need for assisted suicide.
Why Denmark’s Council of Ethics advised against legalising euthanasia
An overwhelming majority of the Danish Council of Ethics has advised against the legalisation of euthanasia in Denmark, according to a recently released report. 16 out of 17 members of the committee have voiced strong opposition to allowing euthanasia in Denmark...
Assisted suicide lobbyist caught peddling misinformation on national TV
The assisted suicide lobby has been caught peddling misinformation about the number of British people who end their lives in the assisted suicide clinic, 'Dignitas', each year, inflating the figure by over twenty times. In a discussion on Sky News last week, a board...
Support for assisted suicide drops in England and Wales, according to poll from assisted suicide campaigners
New polling in England and Wales, commissioned and funded by assisted suicide lobby group, Dignity in Dying, shows there has been a drop in support for assisted suicide. Dignity in Dying, formerly the Voluntary Euthanasia Society, commissioned two YouGov polls into...
Major review published in BMJ journal reveals widespread problems with Oregon’s assisted suicide regime
A lack of critical information about complications in cases of assisted suicide; an increase in the proportion of people who end their lives being concerned about being a burden; a reduction in the length of the doctor-patient relationship before an assisted suicide;...
Bill proposes extreme euthanasia regime for Isle of Man
An assisted suicide and euthanasia bill, more radical than any similar legislation in the US or recently proposed in the UK, will be debated later this month in the Isle of Man. The 'Assisted Dying Bill 2023' is set to receive a Second Reading in the House of Keys,...
Guernsey Deputy touts financial gains from assisted suicide
Lester Queripel, a Deputy in the States of Guernsey, has said that assisted suicide should be considered as a cost-saving measure, as the States try to save millions of pounds. Queripel, Vice-President of the States’ Assembly & Constitution Committee, has made...
