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General / Most Recent Publications relating to Assisted DyingA Deadly CharterParliamentary Brief July 2008. Read Between the Lines Parliamentary Brief June 2008. Assisted dying, a question of public safety Lord Carlile was recently interviewed by The Association for Palliative Medicine on his opposition to physician assisted suicide. Sense and Nonsense about Euthanasia The 10 Top Myths Exposed to Daylight Double Effect: The Myth with a Double Life Text of a Presentation by Dr Claud Regnard FRCP to the All Party Parliamentary Group "Dying Well". Palliative Care Bill (HL Bill 4) Bill tabled in Parliament by Baroness Finlay of Llandaff on 16 November 2006. Assisted Dying – A Comprehensive Brief on the Dangers of Legalisation An evidence-based analysis of the arguments commonly put forward for changing the law to allow assisted suicide and/or euthanasia. Nuffield Council on Bioethics What its recent report on Critical Care and Neonatal Medicine concluded. The Ethics of Treating Very Sick Babies What the Church of England actually said in its evidence to the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. Assisted Dying and Holby City A Critique of BBC1’s drama on this subject. End-of-Life Decision-Making A summary of Professor Clive Seale’s latest report. The Impact of Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide on Doctors This article originally appeared in the peer-reviewed journal Issues in Law & Medicine, Vol 21, No. 3 (c), 2006, by the National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent & Disabled. Posted with Permission. A Layman's guide to Palliative Care by Dr Yolande Saunders MRCGP An article that explains what good palliative care can do for sufferers of terminal illness and why its benefits are not more widely understood. The facts behind morphine and palliative care Pain is the most feared consequence of cancer and we know that unrelieved pain leads to psychological devastation, physical and mental exhaustion along with loss of hope and undermining of the value of life. Dying From Motor Neurone Disease Many patients with MND, their families and the health care professionals involved in their care, fear that death form MND will be distressing – particularly choking to death. However the experience of palliative... Faith Leaders Letter The open letter from nine faith leaders to Members of The House of Lords, stating opposition to legalising euthanasia and physician assisted suicide Bishop of St Albans Address to the General Synod Text of an address given by the Bishop of St Albans to the General Synod of the Church of England on 9 July 2005 on the 2004 Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill. Baroness Finlay of Llandaff speech Hansard extract of the speech given by the Baroness Finlay of Llandaff during the House of Lords debate of 10th October 2005 on the Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill. Improving end-of-life care A briefing by the NHS Confederation on the current state of end-of-life care and on ways to improve it. Palliative Care for the Terminally Ill Bill Hansard extract of the bill proposed by Jim Dobbin MP on 25th January 2006 requiring the provision of palliative care for persons suffering from a terminal illness. What is really happening in Oregon? Note circulated to peers examining the evidence presented to the Select Committee concerning eight years of assisted suicide in Oregon. Publications relating
to the Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill 2005 (HL36)
Comparison of Safeguards in Lord Joffe's latest ADTI Bill
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