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.
Peers declare assisted suicide Bill on course to be rejected after first day of Second Reading in the House of Lords
Peers have declared that the House of Lords is now on course to reject the Leadbeater assisted suicide Bill at Third Reading, after a strong majority of Peers spoke against the Bill at day one of Second Reading of the Bill today. An analysis of the speeches today,...
Baroness Grey-Thompson receives “incredibly abusive” emails for opposing assisted suicide Bill
Tanni Grey-Thompson, a gold medal-winning Paralympic athlete who now sits in the House of Lords, has revealed she received abusive emails that accuse her of being “responsible for people dying in pain” due to her opposition to Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide Bill....
Care providers in England would be “dangerously unprepared” if assisted suicide were made law, polling has revealed
Care providers in England would be “dangerously unprepared” if assisted suicide were to become law, with only 13% stating they would be able to manage assisted suicide in their homes, according to new polling conducted by the largest social care representative body in...
Australian paedophile first prisoner to die through assisted suicide and euthanasia law
A convicted paedophile has become the first prisoner to die as a result of New South Wales’ (NSW) assisted suicide and euthanasia legislation, as his victim daughter claims justice “has been ripped away”. Justice Health officials approved an application from prisoner...
Canada: “Death doula” raising funds for personalised euthanasia service
A Canadian "death doula" is aiming to raise money to fund her personalised euthanasia and assisted suicide service in Ontario. Founder and Executive Director of Journey Home for Empowered Living and Dying, Renee Moor, a so-called “death doula”, said her organisation...
Minister issues correction and apology after calling assisted suicide Bill a major Government priority
A health minister has had to issue an apology and correction after saying the assisted suicide Bill was one "of the Government’s major priorities" despite the fact that the Government claims to be neutral on the Bill. In answer to a written parliamentary question on...