Euthanasia generally involves a health practitioner administering a lethal dose to intentionally end a person’s life, usually in the form of a lethal injection.
Euthanasia is different from assisted suicide, in that assisted suicide involves the person ending their own life administering a lethal dose themselves, whereas euthanasia usually involves a health practitioner administering a lethal dose.
Assisted suicide is legal in a handful of jurisdictions globally including Holland, Belgium, Canada, Colombia and Luxembourg.
Right To Life UK campaigns against any attempt to legalise such euthanasia, and for the development of palliative care services and end of life care that remove any perceived need for euthanasia.
Canadian mother requests lethal injection for 4-year-old son born with disability
A Canadian mother has asked the Canadian government to extend euthanasia to children so a lethal injection might be given to her son. Karie-Lyn Pelletier, from L’Islet, says she will wish to end the life of her four-year-old son, Abel, if his condition becomes worse....
New polling shows just one in three MPs support assisted suicide
New polling shows that only 35% of MPs support introducing assisted suicide to the UK. The polling, released by YouGov today, shows that only 35% of MPs support a law change to allow “doctors to assist in the suicide of someone suffering from a terminal...
Academic and disability rights activist Dr Miro Griffiths speaks out against assisted suicide
The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Dying Well recently held a parliamentary event in which leading disability rights campaigners spoke powerfully against Baroness Meacher’s assisted suicide bill. The cross-party parliamentary group was formed earlier this...
Leading scientist with motor neurone disease speaks out against assisted suicide bill
World-leading robotics and artificial intelligence scientist Dr Peter Scott-Morgan, who has motor neurone disease (MND), has spoken out against the assisted suicide bill currently being considered by the House of Lords. Dr Scott-Morgan, who describes himself as a...
Bioethicists propose implant that would automatically trigger a euthanasia drug at the onset of dementia
A recent article published by leading bioethics journal “The Hastings Center Report”, has proposed an implant that would automatically trigger a lethal drug at the onset of dementia. In the report, co-authors Margaret Battin and Brent M. Kious, proposed the...
Irish euthanasia bill fails
A Bill that was seeking to introduce assisted suicide and euthanasia to Ireland has failed. The Private Members’ Bill was put forward in October 2020 by Gino Kenny TD and would have legalised assisted suicide and euthanasia for any Irish citizen over 18 who had been...
