Tag Archive for: assisted suicide

Why the RCGP should stand firm on opposing a change in the law to allow assisted suicide
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) is conducting a consultation about the College's…

The question that the police have not asked and Nitschke has not answered
Australia's ‘Dr Death’ Philip Nitschke (pictured left) visited the UK this week and held a ‘workshop’…

The police and GMC should be investigating the London psychiatrist that Michael Irwin is protecting
The papers are full today of a report (initially carried by the Daily Mirror) about the first British…

Lord Falconer is seeking to overturn the Hippocratic Oath and change 2,400 years of history
'I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody if asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect.'
So…

Don’t be fooled by Lord Falconer’s ‘modest’ assisted suicide proposals
Lord Falconer has finally announced that his long awaited assisted suicide bill will be tabled in the…

Marie Fleming loses Supreme Court appeal challenging ban on assisted suicide
A 59-year-old Irish woman today lost her Supreme Court challenge to the ban on assisted suicide.
Marie…

Paul Lamb’s tragic personal circumstances must not blind us to the deadly consequences of his attempt to undermine the murder law
A 57 year-old man, who was almost entirely paralysed in a road accident 23 years ago, is now seeking…

Psychiatrist supplies report to man with dementia so he can kill himself at Dignitas
The Sunday Times (£) reports this morning that an 83 year old British man with dementia is to travel…

The RCGP Council should reject Clare Gerada’s attempt to push it neutral on assisted suicide and euthanasia
Next Friday, 22 February, the Council of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) willconsider…

Warning sounded to UK as Oregon assisted suicide deaths hit record high
Lord Falconer has just announced that he is about to introduce a new bill into the House of Lords…