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GPs' views on changing the law on physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia, and willingness to prescribe or inject lethal drugs: a survey from Wales If physician-assisted suicide/euthanasia is legalised in the UK, this may be the work of GPs. In the absence of recent or comprehensive evidence...
A decision by the court to alter the common law so as to create a defence to murder in the case of activevoluntary euthanasiawould be to introduce a major change in an area where there are strongly held conflicting views, where Parliament has rejected attempts to introduce such a change, an...
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Euthanasia, supported by the media, will be legalised in the UK very soon. Who will decide who can or should die? Will it be patients themselves, relatives, nurses, social workers or just any old neighbourly busybody? Suicide has gone from illegal to optional. How soon will euthanasia becom...
Courage to keep life out of law courts. I hope that the UK Parliament has the courage to keep care out of court, encourage better medical training and to leave the law alone - and that the same thing happens elsewhere. As Dr Peter Saunders of the Christian Medical Fellowship says: “We...
What consenting adults do in private is strictly their own business, and the law has no right to interfere. The law should concern itself with people's behavior only when they may do harm to others. This idea, now so familiar a part of liberal ideology, was radically new when the ...
◆October 2, 2013 "Belgian elects to be euthanized after failed sex-change surgery" (The Japan Times) http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/02/world/social-issues-world/belgian-elects-to-be-euthanized-after-failed-sex-change-surgery/...
Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide are actions at the core of what it means to be human - the moral and ethical actions that make us who we are, or who we ought to be. Euthanasia, a subject known in the twenty-first century, is subject to many discussions about ethical permissibi...
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