The Swiss canton population of Zurich yesterday voted overwhelmingly to retain their legal framework on assisted dying. 87% of the voters wanted to retain assisted suicide (legal since 1941 without any ‘slippery slope’ having been induced) and the vast majority wanted to retain the practise of offering a service to terminally ill people from abroad…
The Government has a number of lengthy bills progressing through Parliament which will fall in their entirety if they aren’t completed by Prorogation in the second week of November. A few recently introduced Bills will be ‘carried over’ but most must be done and dusted or they fall. The Coroners and Justice Bill has…
A working sunday for me today, preparing for speaking at the 2nd National Conference on Palliative Care next thursday morning about my support for legislative change to permit medically assisted dying for the terminally ill. At present many palliative care physicians, unlike over 80% of the general public, are against the idea and I know I…
