I am writing to you to express my opposition to the legalisation of assisted suicide as Baroness Meacher’s bill comes before the Lords next week. You might be interested to read a previous Guardian article of mine on this topic here:...
James Mumford author of “Vexed: Ethics Beyond Political Tribes”, says “Don’t let the assisted-suicide lobby hijack the debate…The palliative care community has a radically different idea of dignity to the one propagated by the assisted suicide lobby.”
The assisted-suicide debate begins with a contest over language, a war over a word. That word is ‘dignity.’ The Swiss assisted suicide clinic, where every eight days one Briton travels to die, is called Dignitas. In 2006, the Voluntary Euthanasia Society changed its...
“Our existing end-of-life laws and customs already work well. There is no space for assisted suicide, the introduction of which would risk soon being interpreted as a duty to die to relieve emotional burdens on others.” – Lib Dem Peer
Daily Telegraph Assisted dying would loom over end-of-life careSIR – Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (“Why I remain firmly against assisted dying”, Comment, October 4) articulates well the difficulties involved in finding the best way of looking after a loved one...
Hong Kong Judge Who Acquitted Protesters Will Seek A New Life In Britain. President of the UK Supreme Court, needs to reconsider his finding that ‘ the judiciary in Hong Kong continues to act largely independently of government and their decisions continue to be consistent with the rule of law.’
Hong Kong Judge Who Acquitted Protesters Will Seek A New Life In Britain. The President of the UK Supreme Court, needs to reconsider his finding that ‘ the judiciary in Hong Kong continues to act largely independently of government and their decisions continue to be...
Human Rights Concern – Eritrea reports that 5000 Eritrean Refugees are in Danger in Libya
11 October 2021 An estimated 42,210 refugees and asylum-seekers are presently in Libya, of whom at least 5,000 (12%) are from Eritrea (UNHCR: Sept 2021). All of them now feel in grave danger, after over 5,000 of many nationalities were detained in less...
Matt Ridley explains how the CCP is using Cop 26 and climate change as a bargaining chip to apply pressure on the West – while the gigantic expansion of coal burning in China continues…”For reasons that are not clear, many western environmentalists are mad keen on China, despite its gargantuan appetite for coal, and won’t hear a word said against it.” – The Spectator
Matt Ridley writing in The Spectator https://protect-eu.mimecast.com/s/vy0zC5QN5hmZQYouxkmTF?domain=spectator.co.uk “China’s President Xi Jinping has apparently not yet decided whether to travel to Glasgow next month for the big climate conference known as COP26….the...
Wall Street Journal says “Science Closes In On Covid’s Origins”: “ the crucial evidence is already in plain sight, if only they would look. Let China keep its firewall of secrecy; a suspect who refuses to testify can still be convicted. We have an eyewitness, a whistleblower who escaped from Wuhan and carried details of the pandemic’s origin that the Chinese Communist Party can’t hide.”
“the crucial evidence is already in plain sight, if they would look. Let China keep its firewall of secrecy; a suspect who refuses to testify can still be convicted. We have an eyewitness, a whistleblower who escaped from Wuhan and carried details of the pandemic’s...
Politico describes a David and Goliath Struggle between a brave small Baltic State which has experienced Communist oppression and the CCP “How little Lithuania dragged the EU into its showdown with China”
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis How little Lithuania dragged the EU into its showdown with China The country isn’t the first to tangle with Beijing — but it’s unusual in that Vilnius has little to lose from the spat. STUART LAU October 6,...
Reuters reports that a US electronics firm struck a deal to transport and hire Uyghur workers. A UEI spokeswoman told Reuters the company does not conduct independent due diligence on where and how its workers are trained in Xinjiang.
EXCLUSIVE US electronics firm struck deal to transport and hire Uyghur workers Cate Cadell QINZHOU, China, Oct 7 20210 Reuters U.S. remote-control maker Universal Electronics...
Government responds to reports of forced labour in Malaysian glove factories.
Government responds to reports in The Diplomat on 14 September, of the alleged use of forced labour in Malaysian disposable glove factories and to questions about what due diligence the Department of Health carried out in relation to the use of forced labour...
For 18 years David Alton was a Member of the House of Commons and today he is an Independent Crossbench Life Peer in the UK House of Lords.
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Palliative Care Consultant warns that proposed “legislation will create a burden on many, which has the risk of becoming a duty…Laws aren’t just rules – they send social messages and dictate conduct.”
Palliative Care Consultant warns that proposed “legislation will create a burden on many, which has the risk of becoming a duty…Laws aren’t just rules – they send social messages and dictate conduct.” SIR – If assisted suicide becomes legal, everyone in their lifetime...
Claud Regnard, retired consultant in palliative care medicine,
Rob George, professor of palliative care, and
Amy Profitt, head of medicine, confront the BMJ and ask “Why is The BMJ misrepresenting assisted dying?” And insist that “Legislatures such as Oregon’s are not “strictly monitored” and that “Conscientious objection will become little more than a fig leaf, as in Canada…Thinking we will do any better with assisted dying legislation is delusional.”
Claud Regnard, retired consultant in palliative care medicine,Rob George, professor of palliative care, andAmy Profitt, head of medicine, confront the BMJ and ask “Why is The BMJ misrepresenting assisted dying?” And insist that “Legislatures such as Oregon’s are not...
Moving letter I received today “our current law preventing assisted suicide saved my father’s life when he was suffering in hospital.” Don’t replace a tough law with safeguards and which protects vulnerable people with one which will endanger their lives.
Moving letter I received today “our current law preventing assisted suicide saved my father’s life when he was suffering in hospital.” Don’t replace a tough law with safeguards and which protects vulnerable people with one which will endanger their lives. Please...