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The ProLife Alliance comments on the recent assist...
Posted on 2 February 2010.
On Panorama on BBC1 last night Kay Gilderdale defended her decision to assist in taking her daughter’s life and called for a change in the law on assisted suicide. Also on BBC1 delivering the annual Richard Dimbleby Lecture, Sir Terry Pratchett argued for the creation of assisted suicide ‘tribunals’ to assess the cases of those wanting to die.... 
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Euthanasia creep – an analysis of the Inglis...
Posted on 21 January 2010.
A ‘caring and loving’ mother helps her ME-suffering daughter commit suicide by handing her two syringes filled with large doses of morphine. Another ‘caring and loving’ mother gave her brain-damaged son a lethal injection of heroin in order ‘to save him from an agonised existence’. Two similar cases illustrate more than ever why assisted... 
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MP’s and Doctors fight assisted suicide lobb...
Posted on 21 January 2010.
Recent interim guidelines on assisted suicide prosecution have been condemned by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Dying Well. In their response to the consultation on the interim guidelines, the group expresses their fears that by listing factors against prosecution, it could be used as a basis for appealing against convictions if a case doesn’t... 
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Dutch Regret Euthanasia Legislation...
Posted on 10 December 2009.
The legalisation of euthansia in Holland has resulted in a steep decline in medical care for the terminally ill. Speaking about the phenomenan Dr Els Borst, the former Health Minister who guided the law through Dutch parliament, admits that it was brought in “far too early” without adequately protecting those people who wished to die naturally.... 
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Misdiagnosis of Coma Victim Re-ignites Euthanasia ...
Posted on 24 November 2009.
The testimony of Rom Houben, a misdiagnosed coma victim, has once again cast doubt on the campaign of the pro-euthanasia lobby.   Neurologist Steven Laureys, who discovered that Houben’s brain was in fact functioning normally 23 years after he was declared to be in a persistent vegetative state, maintained that this was not a unique case. In a BMC... 
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The Liverpool Care Pathway: cause for conern?...
Posted on 23 October 2009.
The Liverpool Care Pathway is the recommended management  of dying patients. Its supporters claim that it provides clear helpful criteria for assessing whether a patient is at the very end of life, whether further treatment is useful and if so what,  whether sedation is needed to prevent pain or discomfort, and so on. The LCP has been carefully... 
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RCN ‘neutral’ stance lets down majorit...
Posted on 25 July 2009.
It is both sad and strange that the Royal College of Nursing has ceased to oppose assisted dying and adopted a ‘neutral stance’, neither supporting or opposing assisted suicide, given the recent overwhelming rejection of assisted suicide recently in the House of Lords. When a group of pro-euthanasiasts pushed through a similar ‘neutral’... 
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Sad loss of double suicide...
Posted on 15 July 2009.
The ProLife Alliance defends the right to life from conception to natural death, and is therefore opposed to assisted suicide or euthanasia in any form whatsoever. We are proud of the fact that the United Kingdom has some of the best palliative care specialists and end of life medicine in the world, with hospice care of the highest level. It is extremely... 
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Lords reject assisted suicide (again)...
Posted on 9 July 2009.
The ProLife Alliance welcomes the House of Lords decision on July 7th, to reject, by 194 votes to 141, Lord Falconer’s perverse amendment to the Coroners and Justice Bill. The intention of the Coroners and Justice Bill is to prohibit incitement to suicide. However, euthanasia supporters had tabled an amendment in support of assisted suicide,... 
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Dr Death promotes suicide...
Posted on 8 May 2009.
The arrival of a Dr Nitschke, nicknamed Dr Death, and his suicide workshop tour of the UK have been widely reported by the media. One of the most disturbing details of the news is that he is deliberately targeting towns with a high proportion of elderly people for his suicide tour. These suicide worshops are only open to people aged over 50, who have... 
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Ban Dr Death from Britain...
Posted on 19 April 2009.
The People Newspaper has called for Dr Death (Philip Nitschke) to be banned from Britain, after reports that he plans to hold four workshops to tell people how to kill themselves using his £35 kits. Dominica Roberts, of the ProLife Alliance, said: “He is a terrifying person and should be banned. I am amazed they are letting him in the country.” Nitschke... 
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Assisted suicide: Patricia Hewitt’s misguide...
Posted on 23 March 2009.
Patricia Hewitt, the former Health Secretary, has begun a campaign to “gain the legal right for people to assist their own death”, reports The Times. During her time as Health Secretary she read many accounts of people’s suffering, and was prompted to consider how she would respond in a similar situation of crippling illness.  She... 
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Better spinal care is the answer, not euthanasia...
Posted on 15 March 2009.
The Times today reports that the mother of Dan James, the 23 year old man who was paralysed playing rugby and  ‘assisted to die’  in Switzerland, has criticised the inadequate care her son received from the NHS, where he was moved instead of immobilised, which is likely to have made his paralysis more severe and contributed to the depression... 
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Dignitas: dignified death?...
Posted on 25 October 2008.
The Swiss suicide clinic Dignitas has drawn some intense scrutiny this week after facilitating the death of a 23-year old rugby player who suffered a spinal cord injury that left him paralysed. The Times reports that from the lake near the current Dignitas premises, large quantities of bone fragments have been washed up. They are thought to be from... 
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