The dangers of legitimating suicide A story in the BBC website (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0jjq2vynq7o) indicates the fundamental threat of the legalisation of assisted dying/assisted suicide and/or euthanasia to our civilisational values. It concerns a site designed to match “suicide partners”. More than 700 people in the UK have posted on a pro-suicide website looking for someone to […]
A word about language
Assisted dying? Assisted suicide? Euthanasia? Dignity in dying? In the UK, ‘assisted dying’ has been the preferred term for the past decade or so. However, we prefer ‘assisted suicide’ and ‘euthanasia’ (ASE) because they are more accurate than ‘assisted dying’. It began in the USA. Whereas 42 states have laws against helping someone die by […]
What do the public understand assisted dying to mean? We are raising money to conduct a poll to find out.