Tag Archives: euthanasia
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Capturing the language of (assisted) death

July 29, 2021 Written by End of Life

Those promoting the agenda that, in plain speaking, wants the UK to legalise doctors to be able to provide a prescription for a lethal draught with which patients can kill themselves, have a long history of shape-shifting their language. Morphing from the Voluntary Euthanasia Society […]

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‘Dying with Dignity’ Bill defeated in Ireland

July 22, 2021 Written by End of Life

The Joint Committee on Justice in Ireland has put a halt to the Dying with Dignity Bill proposed by Deputy Gino Kelly. They have recommended that an Oireachtas Special Committee be established to examine the whole area of assisted dying. A public consultation on the bill was […]

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‘Don’t bother the midwife’: abortion as a parable for assisted suicide

May 27, 2021 Written by End of Life , Society , Start of Life

The current series of Call the Midwife is set in 1966. We dispensed with World Cup fever in about half an episode and are now focussing on other things in the news that year. The most significant of these, from a midwifery perspective, was David […]

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Assisted suicide debates are back yet again across the British Isles: it’s time for health professionals’ voices to be heard

April 21, 2021 Written by End of Life , Society

Despite the backdrop of COVID-19 and the emphasis on caring for the most vulnerable in society, an old issue is firmly back on the political agenda. Assisted dying (assisted suicide and euthanasia) is being debated in different jurisdictions of the British Isles, with some MSPs […]

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The headline figures don’t tell the whole story in the BMA assisted suicide poll

October 9, 2020 Written by End of Life

While there have been what seems like an unending succession of polls of British doctors about euthanasia and assisted suicide, that run by the British Medical Association (BMA) early in 2020 can lay claim to being one of the most thorough and significant. With over […]