The Health, Social Care and Sport Committee was holding an evidence session on the proposed Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill ...
Supporting a loved one as they near the end of their life can be confronting. Palliative care is there to help but such services are not equally ...
Assisted suicide is banned in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, with a maximum prison sentence of 14 years. In Scotland, ...
Local landowner Alan “Willy” Williamson has agreed to sever and donate a four-hectare portion of land from his family farm ...
A new law has been proposed to legalise assisted dying for some terminally ill adults. Mentally competent adults with a life ...
Thousands of doctors and nurses have signed an open letter to the Prime Minister urging him to ditch the highly controversial ...
Queen’s Nurse Rekha Vijayshankar discusses death and grief through the lens of modern health and care systems, asking whether communities need to be more involved.
The first assisted death under any new law was likely to be two to three years away, Kim Leadbeater has said. The MP behind ...
In a recent interview, Sepultura guitarist Andreas Kisser confirmed that his wife's death contributed to his decision to end ...
The Government has reportedly been examining ways of using the NHS to get more money into end-of-life care homes over fears ...
Draft assisted dying laws will feature the “strictest protections” against coercion anywhere in the world, the MP who tabled the ...
This group, which includes two palliative care specialists, a general nurse, and a senior nursing assistant, expressed a unified desire: "We are joined by a single wish - all of us want choice." ...