I have always understood and sympathized with the argument for assisted suicide for people facing terminal disease near the end of life. I think hospice care is the appropriate path, but most people can at least understand the impulse to ease the path for a suffering loved one. But I have also feared that the […]
THE latest US government report on assisted suicide in Oregon has revealed that rates have increased by 20 per cent in the last year alone. The official statistics also provide startling new evidence of botched assisted suicides, where instead of ‘dying with dignity’ one patient took a record five days to expire after ingesting a […]
SIR Keir Starmer, the leader of the Labour Party and the man on course to be the next Prime Minister, this week committed himself to bringing forward a Bill to legalise ‘assisted dying’, the contemporary euphemism for assisted suicide or euthanasia. In a telephone call filmed by ITV, Sir Keir assured Dame Esther Rantzen, a […]
ANOTHER big push to legalise ‘assisted dying’ in the UK has been reinforced by celebrity endorsements, hard cases and the testimonies of serving and former politicians who underwent a change of heart and now see that patients should have ‘choice’ at the end of their lives. It is being driven largely by assisted suicide aficionado Gary […]
TIMES have changed. In 2020 and 2021, our government was imploring us not to kill granny . . . in 2024 it is possible that doing exactly that could constitute government policy. Last month, St Esther Rantzen was wheeled out to plant another idea in the public consciousness. She told us that she’d signed up for […]
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