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NO FURTHER investigations into how to introduce assisted dying (suicide) will be made at this time, after the States rejected the proposal by a wide margin. Members voted 24-14 against the [...]

Tuesday 15th May – 7pm – Beau Sejour Free entry Canadian director Kevin Dunn will present the 2nd world premiere of his film Fatal Flaws on the subject of assisted dying. This [...]

One of the UK’s leading disability rights campaigners has warned against plans to introduce assisted suicide, or euthanasia on Guernsey. Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson said that removing universal [...]

Policy & Resources will not back the assisted dying requete being led by its president and backed by its vice-president. The committee’s remaining three members, Deputies Jane Stephens, [...]

Lord Carlile wrote a letter to the Guernsey Press to challenge Lord Falconer’s opinion that there would be “no difficulties with Privvy Council Approval”        

News release: Leading disability rights campaigner to warn against assisted suicide – 5th May One of the UK’s leading disability rights campaigners will warn against plans to introduce assisted [...]

A meeting is being held on Saturday 5th May at 7.30pm – Assisted Dying/Assisted Suicide: A Life & Death Issue. The speakers will be Baroness Tanni-Grey Thompson DBE, Member of the House [...]

PARALYMPIC athlete Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson has warned that assisted dying legislation could end up with a law on ‘intentional killing with a truly massive catchment area’. The wheelchair [...]

It is claimed that ‘safeguards’ will be put into the law, so as to give continued protections to vulnerable people. When we look at the safeguards that have been proposed in the U.K. however, as [...]

Very often, proponents of assisted suicide try to caricature opposition to their proposals as being a matter of ‘religious’ people trying to ‘impose’ their values and beliefs on the rest of [...]