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Better to demedicalise rather than further medicalise and bureaucratise death
I’m in favour of assisted dying, and I was pleased to see the House of Commons in the UK have a sober, rational, respectful ...
Hundreds of hospice beds shut due to a lack of funding – charity
A lack of funding and staff means that 300 inpatient beds are currently closed or out of use in England, out of a total of ...
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Letter from London: Book of the Dead
One of the more consequential political stories here last week was the prospect of MPs legalising assisted dying in England ...
Claire Hanna came to ‘dead heat’ after weighing up arguments for assisted dying
The South Belfast and North Down MP said she was initially minded to vote for the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill ...
MPs daren’t admit the awful truth about ‘assisted dying’
As Parliament debated the merits of enabling sociopaths to coerce the vulnerable into a premature death, a peculiar little ...
Rantzen's 'great relief' after assisted dying vote
Dame Esther Rantzen has said she feels "great relief" after MPs backed proposals to legalise assisted dying in England and ...
Assisted Dying: how MPs voted and what it tells us about ‘cross-party consensus’
The majority of Conservative MPs voted against (an 80/20 split, so a score of 0.60), along with most of the independents who ...
Costs of assisted dying could be among questions at next stage, says minister
The cost of assisted dying plans could be among the questions discussed at the next stage of the legislative process, a ...
'Assisted dying could have helped Debbie Purdy'
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Mississippi man has been accused of breaking into a woman’s home and sexually assaulting her, Memphis ...
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Global Health Highlights: From China's Hospital Reforms to Mpox Variant
This health news roundup covers China's new allowance for foreign-owned hospitals, a detected mpox variant in England, WADA's ...
How MPs voted over assisted dying bill
MPs have backed a proposed law that would legalise assisted dying for terminally ill people, in the first vote on the issue in a decade. The vote on Friday, which resulted in 330 MPs in favour and 275 ...
'Palliative care is not good enough - there's no plan to fix it'
Hospices, which provide care for around 300,000 people a year, are struggling for money. Around a third of their funding ...