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''THE most seriously ill NHS patients should be allowed to die so that the money spent on them can be better used elsewhere, the Health Department is expected to tell the Court of Appeal in a test case. John Reid, the Health Secretary, is expected to refer to the cost of keeping coma patients alive with food and water, according to legal papers leaked to a national newspaper. The department could not be reached for comment last night. '' The Times 5 February 2005 |
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| Too costly to be kept alive |
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'HOSPITAL patients wit little hope of recovery should he allowed to die ''in some cases because it costs so much to keep them alive,'' leaked Government paper suggest.They should be denied the right to food and water if they fall into a coma or become too ill to speak for themselves, say the documents, which set out the views of Health Secretary John Reid.' Daily Mail 5 February 2005 |
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| Poll Reveals 3/4 of UK Respondents Oppose Withdrawal of Food and Water |
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''More than three-quarters of the UK public believe patients who are unable to communicate should be able to receive food and water by tube if they have asked in advance, a survey has revealed. Last month, the UK parliament under Labour rule enacted the Mental Capacity Bill allowing the nomination of an individual to have legal power of attorney, who would make decisions about whether to withdraw food or fluids from a terminally ill patient.'' LifeSiteNews.com 13 May 2005 |
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| Let premature babies die, says expert |
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''BABIES born extremely prematurely should be allowed to die rather than risk growing up disabled,'' Baroness Warnock said yesterday.' Last night, patients' groups accused her of abusing her privileged status. Julia Quenzler, of SOS - NHS Patients in Danger, said: ''She wants the elderly to do the decent thing. Now she is going to the other extreme and attacking our most vulnerable children.'' Daily Mail 6 June 2005 |
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| "JIGGERY-POKERY" at BMA Annual Meeting |
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'Doctors' group criticises ''stage management'' for assisted-death decision.' First Do No Harm 1 July 2005 |
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| C of E General Synod rejects euthanasia |
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''The Archbishop of Canterbury said he fears moves towards legalising voluntary euthanasia were being motivated by the need for cost-cutting in healthcare.Dr Rowan Williams reaffirmed his opposition to euthanasia and assisted suicide at a meeting of the the General Synod of the Church of England, in York.'' Thinking Anglicans 13 July 2005 |
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| Dame Cecily Saunders |
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The mother of modern hospice care passes on. - ''RALPH NADER once mused to me about what a terrible thing it was that Jack Kevorkian was (at the time) the world's most famous doctor. He was right. That distinct honor should have belonged to Dame Cecily Saunders, the founder of the modern hospice movement who died last week at age 87 in London at St Christopher's, the hospice she founded in 1967.'' The Daily Standard - Wesley J. Smith 19 July 2005 |
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| New Zealand doctors shame the BMA |
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''Soon after the British Medical Association at its Annual Representative Meeting on 30 June 05 opted for neutrality on the question of assisted suicide (after a manipulated vote), the New Zealand Medical Association voted to maintain its opposition.'' First Do No Harm 1 August 2005 |
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| Belgian "euthanasia doctor" accused of five murders |
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''A doctor from the Belgian coastal town of Oostende is accused of murdering five elderly patients in a nursing home in the past three years, local newspaper 'Het Nieuwsblad' reported on Wednesday. The paper said the victims -- all of whom were suffering from dementia -- died after being injected with a lethal dose of morphine.'' Xinhua News Agency 3 August 2005 |
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| Awake After 20 Years, Sarah Speaks |
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''After two decades of floating somewhere between life and death, Sarah Scantlin is fully, and finally, awake. Since February when she awoke from a coma-like state that had kept her silent and unmoving for 20 years, she has undergone surgery on her long-unused limbs and has had intensive speech therapy to unlock her long-dormant tongue.'' CBS News 4 August 2005 |
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| Terminally ill man loses legal battle for the right to be fed |
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''Leslie Burke's plea for food and fluid should not be made into an argument about autonomy'' (ALERT) ''The Court of Appeal has overturned a landmark ruling that would have compelled doctors to continue to feed a seriously disabled man even if he lost the power to communicate.'' The Catholic Herald 5 August 2005 |
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| Woman at centre of Australian euthanasia row dies |
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'MELBOURNE (Reuters) - The woman at the centre of Australia's latest euthanasia row died on Friday, 10 days after her life support was cut off, in a case similar to the Terri Schiavo controversy in the United States. Margaret Tighe, president of Right to Life Australia said, ''What her assailant was unable to complete has now been completed by people in authority.''' Reuters 5 August 2005 |
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| How a minority in the BMA got their way on euthanasia |
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''Eminent doctors used Stalinist tactics to engineer a change in the British Medical Association’s policy on assisted dying.'' Spiked 9 August 2005 |
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| Outside the BMA Annual Representative Meeting |
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'Manipulation won the day at the BMA. Commenting on a report that some doctors are once again calling for the right to assisted suicide, Andy Berry, who lives with a disability, said ''I wish Doctors would spend more time working out how to help us and less, or no time at all, talking about how to kill us.'' ALERT 9th August 2005 |
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| Disability and Anti-Euthanasia Groups Outraged at Biased Dutch Study |
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'A new study appearing in the August 8 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine claims that the ‘careful patient evaluations and official practice guidelines’ followed by physicians in the Netherlands is adequate protection for those disabled people who fear for their lives in Dutch hospitals. Disabled rights groups are outraged at what they identify as the bias of the study which was funded by the Royal Dutch Medical Association and the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare, and Sports. Calling the report ''predictable and self-serving,'' Stephen Drake of Not Dead Yet, the leading disability rights group in the US, warned that ''a large part of the problem is that media often conflate the terms, 'terminal illness' and 'disability.'' UTRECHT, LifeSite News 10 August 2005 |
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| Exposing Philip Nitschke - A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing |
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''I am not a public speaker. I am a simple woman that has experienced extraordinary circumstances in the last 8 months. I am here in the capacity to relay my experiences in relation to my father's suicide between 25th September and 14th October, 2004.'' Melissa Frost 1 July 2005 |
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| "Starvation , as it turns out, is very undignified" - Kelly Taylor |
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'Hunger strike woman Kelly Taylor has made the difficult decision to start eating again 19 days after she began the struggle to end her life. The 28-year-old who lives in Stapleton Bristol, was born with a rare heart condition which means she is dependent on pure oxygen and cannot walk more than a few steps without having to rest.'' Daily Telegraph 13 August 2005 ALERT have always said that being without needed food and fluid was extremly painful. The Mental Capacity Act 2005 allows patients to be starved and dehydrated to death ''in their best interest.'' |
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| Leslie Burke - Right to Live |
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''In Britain there is a debate over the right to live. Just by surviving, Burke has defied the odds doctors gave him 22 years ago.'' Religion & Ethics (Video) 26 August 2005 |
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| Medical "End-of-Life Decisions" (decisions to kill) for Children in the Netherlands |
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''Most end-of-life decision-making studies have, until now, involved either the general population or newborn infants. This report assesses the frequency of end-of-life decisions preceding child death and the characteristics of the decision-making process in the Netherlands.'' Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med.2005; 159: 802-809 September 2005 |
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| Maintain the Barriers - It's worth it |
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''In the latest of a series of similar cases, a 72-year-old retired nurse who suffocated his wife, who suffered from haemo-cromatosis, has been given a three-year conditional discharge'' The Independent 3 September 2005. |
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| Poorer families struggling to meet care bills for elderly |
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''At present, some people get all costs paid by the NHS and others receive very little. A particular anomaly is that some people with dementia who need large amounts of personal assistance with daily tasks may receive little or nothing because they do not require nursing.'' Daily Telegraph 15 September 2005 Note: Social care used to be part of the NHS. The change was recommended by Joel Joffe and David Lipsay, since ennobled. |
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| Please don't let my baby die |
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''THE parents of a desperately ill baby girl today pleaded with doctors: Don't give up on our daughter Seventeen-month-old Abbie Tinkley, who was born with a rare muscle-wasting disorder, is on a life support machine at Alder Hey hospital where specialists are considering her future care.'' Liverpool Echo 18 October 2005 |
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| Baby Charlotte - "Black Cloud" removed |
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'ALERT is delighted and relieved that the ''black cloud'' over Baby Charlotte has been removed today by the High Court.' ALERT 21 October 2005 |
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| Assisting suicides is bad law, policy |
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'Sacramento is considering creating an Oregon-style system to end lives' (By Wesley J. Smith). 'Advocates of assisted suicide label hastened death a ''compassionate choice.'' But such gooey euphemisms seek to hide the harsh truth: Assisted suicide isn't about caring: It is about the intentional ending of human life – an act barred by the Hippocratic Oath for more than 2000 years.' The Orange County Register 25 October 2005 |
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| My Down's daughter keeps our family together |
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''Saintly'' mother Wendolyn Markcrow was given a two-year suspended sentence for killing her son Patrick with Down's Syndrome after looking after him for 36 years. Here Rosa Monckton, whose daughter Domenica has Down's Syndrome, asks why Markcrow wasn't imprisoned, and lambasts the system which fails thousands of handicapped children.' Daily Mail 4th November 2005 |
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| Assisted Dying Bill - Choices we'd Rather Not Have |
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'First there was Sophie's Choice - ''keep your son or your daughter.'' Now Dick Turpin's Choice seems to be approaching. You can choose to pay with your life if you don't want to hand over your money, or struggle with your local social services for social care.' ALERT 24 November 2005 |
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| MND sufferer dedicates life to help others less fortunate |
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''RETIRED postman Mike Findley was at the annual conference of the Communication Workers Union in Blackpool last June. He was there as a delegate for retired members, giving passionate testimony as to how services for the elderly people could be improved.He left the conference early because he had to visit the hospital in Middlesbrough due to problems he'd been having with some muscles around his neck. He thought maybe there was a slipped disc or something relating to the days when he used to deliver the mail. Two days later, Mike was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease (MND).'' The Universe 4 December 2005 |
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| Victory in Scotland |
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''Mr Jeremy Purvis MSP, has abandoned his attempt to introduce an assisted suicide Bill into the Scottish Parliament, due to lack of support. The signatures of 18 members would have been required and he only secured five.This follows an information campaign by a number of organisations in Scotland which disliked the prospect of public endorsement of suicide as a valid option for people in bad health.ALERT would like to offer all who worked hard for this splendid result our heartfelt thanks.'' (Lord Joffe plans to introduce his similar Bill again in the House of Lords on 12th May 2006). ALERT Statement 6 December 2005 |
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| A View to a Kill |
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Is Jack Kevorkian headed to a theatre near you? (By Wesley J. Smith December 14, 2005, 8:25 a.m.) ''According to recent showbiz news, jailed murderer Jack Kevorkian may soon be the subject of a laudatory movie biopic. (No, it is not intended as a horror movie.) Unfortunately, this seems to be a serious project. The announced director is Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple. The screenwriter is Barbara Turner (Pollock). Stars touted as potentially playing the lead include Ben Kingsley and Daniel Day Lewis.'' National Review 14 December 2005 |
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| Dr Howard Martin - How to frighten patients |
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''On the 14th December 2005 Dr Howard Martin was acquitted of murdering three elderly patients after admittedly giving them massive overdoses of morphine.'' Comment by Dr Richard Lamerton. ALERT 17 December 2005 |
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| Helping to solve the pensions crisis? |
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'The latest proposals to change the law against homicide would make so-called ''mercy'' killing hardly punishable.' Press Release ALERT 20 December 2005 |
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'Commenting on the Law Commission`s report on the reform of the homicide law ( press reports 20/12/05 ) the Medical Ethics Alliance said;By making so called ''mercy'' killings a lesser offence, a serious injustice could be done to those who are terminally ill, severely disabled or incompetent. The recommendations in the report that would open the way to an enhanced defence of ''provocation'' or ''diminished responsibility'', could open the way to non custodial sentences being routine in cases where the victim was ill, even if nowhere near death.' Press Release - Medical Ethics Alliance 20 December 2005 |
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''The most callous person would surely baulk at the idea of bumping off ageing parents - even at this time of year.But the idea and its social implications gripped the imagination of Jacobean playwrights Thomas Middleton and William Rowley who, in this 1618 tragi-comedy, dramatised the chaos that follows the arbitrary passing of a mandatory euthanasia law in a fictional Greek court.'' Evening Standard 28 December 2005 |
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