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US and Canadian opponents of right to die laws swamp UK internet polls - The Observer 1st November 2009
"Euthanasia Prevention Coalition accused of 'desperate measures' to bolster its case"
'Death tourism' leads Swiss to consider ban on assisted suicide - The Guardian 28th October 2009
"The Swiss government is considering restricting or even banning organised assisted suicide in an attempt to reduce so-called "death tourism".
Swiss authorities want to ensure euthanasia is a last resort for the terminally ill, amid fears their current laws on assisted suicide could be open to abuse. A study last year suggested more and more people seeking help to die in Switzerland did not have a terminal illness."
Doctors admit to practising 'slow euthanasia' on terminally-ill patients - Daily Mail 29th October 2009
"One in five doctors admit to keeping the terminally-ill heavily sedated until they die, in what critics have dubbed 'slow euthanasia'.
A poll of nearly 3,000 doctors found that 18.7 per cent had administered drugs to keep patients suffering from painful conditions such as cancer unconscious for hours at a time."
Doctors engaged in ‘slow euthanasia’ for patients with terminal illnesses - The Times 28th October 2009
"Patients with terminal illness are being heavily sedated by doctors before their deaths in a form of “slow euthanasia”, research suggests.
A poll of nearly 3,000 doctors found that almost one in five had administered infusions of drugs to keep patients unconscious for hours or days at a time. "
Doctors who back assisted suicide 40 per cent more likely to withdraw treatment - The Times 26th October 2009
"Doctors who support the legalisation of assisted suicide are more likely to withdraw or withhold treatment from dying patients, a study has found.
Actively helping someone to die remains illegal in Britain but more than a third of GPs and hospital doctors report making decisions which they expected would accelerate the death of a terminally-ill patient. "
Third of doctors act to shorten lives of dying - The Guardian 23rd October 2009
"Around a third of doctors say they have given drugs to terminally ill patients or withdrawn treatment, knowing or intending that it would shorten their life, research reveals.
A study of doctors in charge of the last hours of almost 3,000 people finds decisions almost always have to be made on whether to give drugs to relieve pain that could shorten life and whether to continue resuscitation and artificial feeding."
Terminally ill grandmother 'left to starve' by doctors - The Sunday Telegraph 11th October 2009
"Hazel Fenton, an 80-year-old grandmother who was placed under a controversial care plan and left to “starve to death” after doctors identified her as being terminally ill, only recovered after the intervention of her daughter. "
Daughter saves mother, 80, left by doctors to starve - The Sunday Times 11th October 2009
"AN 80-year-old grandmother who doctors identified as terminally ill and left to starve to death has recovered after her outraged daughter intervened.
Hazel Fenton, from East Sussex, is alive nine months after medics ruled she had only days to live, withdrew her antibiotics and denied her artificial feeding. The former school matron had been placed on a controversial care plan intended to ease the last days of dying patients. "
Retired GP, 83, arrested after suicide of multiple sclerosis sufferer - The Times 29th September 2009
A retired GP and right-to-die campaigner was arrested yesterday in connection with the suicide of a multiple sclerosis sufferer.
Libby Wilson, 83, a member of the pro-euthanasia group Friends at the End, reportedly spoke to Cari Loder, 48, a few days before her death.
Suicide advice websites face prosecution - Daily Telegraph 24th September 2009
Internet campaigners whose advice on how to take your own life is used in an assisted suicide face possible prosecution, according to the new guidance published yesterday.
Assisted suicide: previous cases - Daily Telegraph 24th September 2009
Dan Hyde, an expert in criminal law from Cubism Law, on what these guidelines, which cannot be applied retrospectively, could have meant for some high-profile cases of assisted suicide.
Assisted suicide guidelines will ease fears, says DPP - The Guardian 23rd September 2009
The director of public prosecutions has acknowledged that new guidelines on assisted suicide could lead to an increase in numbers of Britons choosing to die at home in the UK rather than travelling to Dignitas in Switzerland, reassured that people who help them would be safe from prosecution.
Foggy guidelines won't help the dying - The Guardian 23rd September 2009
The DPP's explanations on assisted suicide are just confusing. We need proper parliamentary debate and intelligent legislation
Thank you, Keir Starmer - The Guardian 23rd September 2009
These guidelines recognise the quality of compassion. My brother would have welcomed them
New guidance on assisted suicide offers legal protection to families - The Independent 24th September 2009
Director of Public Prosecutions clarifies law on who is safe from prosecution – and who is not
People with terminal illnesses or severe disabilities who wish family and friends to help them commit suicide have welcomed new guidelines which clarify the law on bringing criminal prosecutions in England and Wales.
Would Debbie Purdey's husband escape sanction over assisted suicide? - The Independent 24th September 2009
Q. Why has the Director of Public Prosecutions published new guidance on assisted suicide?
A. The House of Lords ruled in July that the Crown Prosecution Service must set out the specific factors when its lawyers exercise their discretion in charging someone for assisting someone to take their own life.
Edward Turner: We held her hands as she slipped away - The Independent 24th September 2009
In January 2006 my mother, Dr Anne Turner, died peacefully at the Dignitas clinic in Zurich from a lethal dose of barbiturates. My two sisters and I held her hands at her bedside as she slipped into unconsciousness.
Sarah Wootton: At last some sense on suicide - The Independent 24th September 2009
The change in guidance on the law on assisted suicide is a momentous breakthrough in the campaign for patient choice and dignity at the end of life.
New guidelines ease relatives' fear of assisted suicide - The Independent 23rd September 2009
Relatives of people who kill themselves will not face prosecution as long as they do not maliciously encourage them and assist only a "clear settled and informed wish" to commit suicide, the Director of Public Prosecutions said today.
Keir Starmer QC outlined guidance to make it easier for those helping someone commit assisted suicide to know if they will face prosecution.
Assisted suicide: The key factors - The Independent 23rd September 2009
Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer today published the factors that will weigh in favour of and against future prosecutions for assisting suicide.
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