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End of life

At Christian Concern we believe in life, not death. There is currently sustained pressure by a minority of vocal campaigners to weaken the law on assisted suicide and change public opinion on assisted suicide and euthanasia. This would be to the detriment of the whole of society, especially the disabled and terminally ill. People who are suffering at the end of their lives need to be shown compassion and given better palliative care. At Christian Concern we vigorously defend the law relating to euthanasia and assisted suicide to ensure that the vulnerable are protected.

Articles

  • January 24th, 2012
    A man suffering from a serious and disabling condition is in court this week seeking an order to allow doctors to end his life without them facing criminal charges. Tony Nicklinson, aged 57 and a father of two children, was diagnosed with “locked in syndrome” after suffering a massive stroke in 2005 which left him paralysed from the neck down.
  • January 9th, 2012
    Time and again, Parliament has refused to relax the law on assisted suicide. Having failed there, attempts were made to get around the law by persuading the Director of Public Prosecution to revise guidelines about who might be prosecuted for helping a relative or a friend to end their life.
  • January 5th, 2012
    Lord Falconer’s ‘Commission on Assisted Dying’ released their proposals today (5 Jan) and recommended that doctors should be allowed to assist terminally ill patients to kill themselves, as long as the patients had less than a year to live, and provided they meet certain criteria.
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