Assisted suicide

References

1. ¹The Guardian online, 17 January 2021, see https://www.theguardian.com/law/2021/jan/17/jonathan-sumption-cancer-patient-life-less-valuable-others as at 4 August 2021
2. ²Not Dead Yet UK briefing note, February 2019, pages 5-8, see http://notdeadyetuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/not-dead-yet-uk-briefing-note-as-polls-feb-2019-final.pdf as at 4 august 2021; ‘Disabled people like me fear assisted suicide: it suggests that some lives are less worth living’, Jane Campbell, The BMJ Opinion, 6 February 2019, see https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2019/02/06/disabled-people-like-me-fear-legal-assisted-suicide-it-suggests-that-some-lives-are-less-worth-living/ as at 4 August 2021
3. ³Oregon Death with Dignity Act: 2020 Data Summary, Oregon Health Authority Public Health Division, February 2021, page 12
4. ⁴The Sunday Telegraph, Oregon Health Authority Public Health Division, February 2021, page 12
5. ⁵Regional Euthanasia Review Committees: Annual Report 2019, March 2020, page 12; Regional Euthanasia Review Committees: Annual Report 2009, May 2010, page 5
6. ⁶The Times online,19 July 2020, see https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dutch-mp-backs-euthanasia-for-over-75s-who-are-tired-of-life-z8bdp6685 as at 4 August 2021
7. ⁷ Jones, D A, Gastmans, C and MacKellar, C (Eds), Euthanasia and assisted suicide: lessons from Belgium, Cambridge University Press, 2017, page 102
8. ⁸Global News online, 17 March 2021, see https://globalnews.ca/news/7703262/canada-senate-passes-bill-c-7/ as at 4 August 2021; ‘Should Mentally Ill Patients Have the Right to Euthanasia?’, Psychology Today, 21 April 2021, see https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/finding-purpose/202104/should-mentally-ill-patients-have-the-right-euthanasia as at 6 August 2021
9. ⁹Regional Euthanasia Review Committees: Annual Report 2019, March 2020, page 10; Regional Euthanasia Review Committees: Annual Report 2002, page 11
10. ¹⁰Second Annual Report on Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada 2020, Health Canada, June 2021, page 13-14
11. ¹¹Oregon Death with Dignity Act: 2020 Data Summary, Oregon Health Authority Public Health Division, February 2021, pages 9 and 11; Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act – 2010, Oregon Public Health Division
12. ¹²Neuvième Rapport aux Chambres Législatives: Années 2018-2019, Commission Fédérale de Contrôle et d’Evaluation de l’Euthanasie, page 12; Premier Rapport aux Chambres Législatives: 22 September 2002 – 31 Décembre 2003, Commission Fédérale de Contrôle et d’Evaluation de l’Euthanasie, page 7
13. ¹³ GB News tweet, 27 June 2021, see https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1409166930586615810 as at 4 August 2021
14. ¹⁴ ‘What We Want’, My Death, My Decision, see https://www.mydeath-mydecision.org.uk/what-we-want/ as at 4 August 2021
15. ¹⁵ Irwin, M, Approaching Old-Old, Society for Old Age Rational Suicide, June 2014, page 55; The Guardian, 9 March 2021
16. ¹⁶The Sunday Times, 6 June 2021
17. ¹⁷‘No majority view on assisted dying moves RCP position to neutral’, Royal College of Physicians, 21 March 2019, see https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/news/no-majority-view-assisted-dying-moves-rcp-position-neutral as at 4 August 2021
18. ¹⁸‘Royal College of GPs remains opposed to change in the law on assisted dying’, Royal College of General Practitioners, 21 February 2020, see https://www.rcgp.org.uk/about-us/news/2020/february/royal-college-of-gps-remains-opposed-to-change-in-the-law-on-assisted-dying.aspx as at 4 August 2021
19. ¹⁹‘Physician-assisted dying survey’, BMA,16 July 2021, see https://www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-support/ethics/end-of-life/physician-assisted-dying-survey as at 4 August 2021; Kantar, BMA Survey on Physician-Assisted Dying, February 2020
20. ²⁰The Telegraph online 20 February 2009, see https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/4736927/Right-to-die-can-become-a-duty-to-die.html as at 5 August 2021; New York Post online, 24 October 2016, see https://nypost.com/2016/10/24/terminally-ill-mom-denied-treatment-coverage-but-gets-suicide-drugs-approved/ as at 5 August 2021
21. ²¹National Review online, 24 January 2020, see https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/01/euthanasia-canada-government-pressures-hospice-to-kill/ as at 5 August 2021
22. ²²The 2015 quality of death index: Ranking palliative care across the world, The Economist Intelligence Unit, July 2015
23. ²³The Times, 6 November 2020
24. ²⁴Protect, respect, connect – decisions about living and dying well during COVID-19, Care Quality Commission, 2021
25. ²⁵Ibid, page 20
26. ²⁶Annual Report 2020, The Learning Disabilities Mortality Review (LeDeR) Programme, University of Bristol, page 43
27. ²⁷Frustrated, Angry and Unfair: Staff Experiences of DNAR Decision-making in 2020, The British Institute of Human Rights, February 2021, page 18