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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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A DOCTOR who has had first-hand experience of caring for a loved one suffering from cancer believes her life would have been very different had she not gone through such a difficult time. Dr [...]

  Letter of response from the Churches’ in Guernsey In the Churches’ letter that was published on Monday we noted that ‘over time’ there was a tendency for safeguards to be eroded. A member [...]

Is asking the Assembly to vote through a fundamental transformation of the law on the basis of a four-page requete the right way to effect change? asks Peter Gillson THE assisted dying requete [...]

A PEER who was part of a parliamentary select committee which looked at assisted dying has been critical of the debate in the island. Lord Carlile of Berriew – a member of the House of Lords and [...]

Suicide is a situation brought on by severe depression, this can affect people of all ages. So we have to ask ourselves who will be offered assistance to die and who will be offered help to live? [...]

SERIOUS doubt has been cast on whether doctors would be willing or able to help someone to end their life if assisted dying was introduced. The issue, which will go to the States in May, gained [...]

THE British Medical Association is opposed to assisted dying with the local branch warning its legalisation could lead to problems recruiting and retaining doctors in Guernsey. Its intervention [...]