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A Right to Die? (nucleus - summer 2003)

On 20 January 2003 Reginald Crew became the second Briton to travel to an 'assisted suicide' clinic in Switzerland in order to have his life ended by a fatal dose of barbiturates. The 74 year old former car worker suffered from motor neurone disease, a progressive neurological condition, which left...

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CMF condemns assisted suicide (20/01/2003)

CMF Director Peter Saunders commented: 'Mr Crew's is a tragic and uncommon case. Very few people - even with motor-neurone disease - want assisted suicide, and only 6% of hospice...
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Hemlock in Strasbourg (triple helix - summer 2002)

The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is less malleable and less of a euthanasist's charter than many commentators feared. That is the effect of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in Pretty v United Kingdom (www.worldlii.org/eu/cases). The facts Diane Pretty suffered from Motor Neurone Disease (Triple Helix...

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Diane Pretty - statement from CMF on the European Court decision (03/05/2002)

CMF has welcomed the European Court decision in the Diane Pretty case, which is to uphold the present law prohibiting assisted suicide and euthanasia. CMF General Secretary Peter Saunders...
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Letters (nucleus - summer 2002)

Editor, My flatmate is a medical student who receives your journal, which I occasionally read. However, I was disturbed by your editorial about the Dianne Pretty case. I am personally appalled that this woman is being denied the right to end her own life. We are told we are free to...

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Assisted suicide survey results irrelevant to current debate (05/02/2002)

CMF has responded to a survey showing that 80% of people support physician-assisted suicide (PAS) by saying that the results are irrelevant to the current debate. The study results,...
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Diane Pretty (nucleus - spring 2002)

Diane Pretty is a 42 year old woman with motor neurone disease (MND) who wishes to commit suicide but is now too disabled to do so. She would therefore like her husband to end her life instead. In October 2001 the High Court heard Mrs Pretty's appeal against an earlier decision...

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Diane Pretty - statement on the House of Lords' decision (29/11/2001)

CMF has welcomed the House of Lords’ decision in the Diane Pretty case, which is to uphold the present law prohibiting assisted suicide and euthanasia. CMF General Secretary Peter Saunders...
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Physician Assisted Suicide (nucleus - autumn 2000)

But surely a patient has the right to choose whether or not they want to die?' 'It's just an act of compassion.' 'You're condemning people to remain in pain if you don't help them to die.' In a society that exalts the rights of the individual, and crucially the individual's...

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Submission from CMF to the Select Committee of the House of Lords on Medical Ethics (01/03/1993)

In Spring 1993 CMF was invited to make a Submission to the House of Lords' Select Committee on Medical Ethics, whose terms of reference were: 'to consider the ethical,...
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