Tag Archive for: euthanasia

More brief euthanasia updates from around the world – some good, some bad
I have recently posted two blogs giving a round up of international euthanasia news, both of which have…

Video debate from the BMA on the Falconer Commission
The video below includes coverage of the full day's business on Thursday's Annual Representative Meeting…

British Medical Association undermines credibility of Falconer Commission on Assisted Dying
The British Medical Association, representing 140,000 British doctors, has this morning questioned the…

Falconer confirms bias in composition of his Commission on Assisted Dying ahead of BMA debate on its legitimacy
Former Lord Chancellor Charles Falconer (pictured) appeared on the Radio Four Sunday programme this morning…

Assisted suicide is still suicide and has devastating effects on those left behind
The BBC2 documentary ‘Choosing to die’ was an attempt by the pro-euthanasia lobby, aided by the…

A letter to Jeremy Hunt about BBC media portrayal of suicide
Last week I wrote on behalf of Care Not Killing (an alliance, of which CMF is one of over 40 organisational…

Reclaiming dignity in dying
BBC scriptwriters, viewers and listeners fought back over the weekend to recapture the word ‘dignity’…

Twenty facts we did not learn from Terry Pratchett’s BBC ‘documentary’ on assisted suicide in Europe
The Sunday Times, in line with its new editorial policy, ran a typically effusive article last weekend…

Using organs from euthanasia victims now an established procedure in ‘brave new Belgium’
Recently I blogged about Jack Kevorkian, the American pathologist known by many as ‘Dr Death’ for…

Kevorkian’s life and death is sober warning of the dangers of legalising assisted suicide
Jack Kevorkian, the American pathologist known by many as ‘Dr Death’ for his role in helping over…