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Disabled children should be euthanised, according to Cllr Colin Brewer. According to Baroness Warnock, disabled adults should be euthanised. In both cases this is based on the cost to society.
Twin brothers who found out they were going blind have been euthanised by doctors in Belgium, despite not having a terminal illness or suffering from ...
Animals have feelings and emotions, and they suffer from pain, disabilities and diseases just as humans do. But unlike my father, who could clearly communicate his wishes through a system of blinking his eyes, animals can't tell us (at least not in human language) that they don't feel well, are in terrible pain or even want to die. They depend on us to notice when something is wrong and to be brave enough to make the heartbreaking-but-humane decision to end their suffering when the time comes.
More than 50 religious leaders have called for assisted dying to be legalised in the UK, with vicars, priests and rabbis planning to lobby parliament ...
His own determined advocacy, the effective use of the media to promote his cause, and the ongoing eloquent, ethical and dignified support of his wife and daughters have guaranteed that Tony Nicklinson's death has not been the end of the public debate he reignited.
The lack of a database of 'living wills' is more than merely a statistical concern. As both 'living wills' and LPAs are legally-binding documents, clinicians might find themselves treating individuals who had expressly wished not to be saved with all the complications which might ensue.
Locked-in syndrome sufferer Tony Nicklinson has lost his High Court battle for the right to end his life when he chooses. Following the ruling Mr N...
From the day you are born, even though your shoulders are no broader than a 12" ruler, you carry a burden of responsibility of which most are unaware until they reach the other end of their life.
My dilemma is that the same argument can be made against state-assisted dying and the death penalty.
The Liverpool Care Pathway, a protocol normally used for the "dying patient", came under extensive scrutiny by the media recently.
Our beloved 14 year old cocker spaniel Sammy who has lived for the past six months with senile dementia, blindness, a lack of bowel control and use of his legs, was put to sleep yesterday. With our dog we were allowed to choose when to end his life so that he could die with dignity and achieve a 'good death'. We were not allowed that option with my father.
Tony Nicklinson is an intelligent, happily married, loving father-of-two. He also has locked-in-syndrome: an acute brain trapped in a defunct, mute bo...
Locked-in syndrome victim Tony Nicklinson is being condemned to live in a state of suffering and indignity by the current law of assisted suicide and ...
The wife of a man with locked-in syndrome who is fighting for his right to die at the High Court said on Tuesday there will be "no happy endings" to t...
I knew that Tony's was the first right-to-die hearing of its kind. Whereas previous cases have clarified the law on the assisted suicide, Tony's case goes further - it represents a fundamental challenge to the law on murder. "The court", says Mr Justice Charles, who allowed Tony's case to proceed, "is being invited to cross the Rubicon."
Two locked-in syndrome sufferers who find their lives "undignified and intolerable" are to take their right-to-die pleas to the High Court on Tuesday....
'We're fighting for the right for Dad to die. Everything that we want we want to be regulated and to be strict, it shouldn't be easy. It should be really difficult to make sure that people aren't being coerced, that people are of sound mind and that it is what people want to do, but it should be possible.'
A locked-in syndrome patient seeking permission for a doctor to end his life in the High Court has been captured on film tweeting for the first time. ...
Today, more than ever, we should retain the idea that euthanasia is an act of humanity and compassion to those for whom the prospect of death is better than that of a slow, painful and terminal decay.
Tony Nicklinson was a "very active and outgoing man" before tragedy struck when he suffered a stroke while on a business trip to Athens in 2005. It...
Legal action brought by locked-in syndrome sufferer Tony Nicklinson, who wants a doctor to be able to end his "intolerable" life lawfully, can go ahea...
A High Court judge is to give his decision on whether a case brought by Tony Nicklinson, who suffers with "locked-in syndrome" and wants his "sufferin...
A campaign in favour of euthanasia has used photomontages of French presidential candidates on the brink of death in a bid to gain attention. Fren...
A Lithuanian architect and former theme park worker, has designed a chilling roller coaster concept to thrill passengers – and kill them. Dubbed...
Plans for a mobile euthanasia team to assist people to die at home have been given the go-ahead in Holland, according to reports. The mobile teams ...
