Denying Assisted Dying Where Death is Not ‘Reasonably Foreseeable’: Intolerable Overgeneralization in Canadian End-of-Life Law

BMA end-of-life care and physician-assisted dying project.

The BMJ is wrong: doctor assisted dying would overmedicalise death.

The BMJ has decided to support the Assisted Dying Bill. This is a mistake. Medicine wields at once too much power and too little. We are rather impotent, for example, around social inequalities.Despite evidence that financial gradients make health worse, we lack the clout to influence government policy to tackle them. Yet, on the flipside, medical power can be exerted firmly in places where a m...

Death and Dying in Assisted Living

This study examined death and dying in assisted living (AL) and the various factors that influence these processes. The study is set in a 60-bed assisted living facility outside of Atlanta, Georgia. Data collection methods included participant observation and in-depth interviews with 28 residents and 6 staff. Data were analyzed using the grounded theory approach and focused on the 18 residents ...

The law looks at assisted dying.

THE CONTROVERSY IGNITES The Society for the Legalisation of Voluntary Euthanasia was founded in 1935 by a group of eminent medical and clerical practitioners and held its first meeting in BMA House. These origins seem improbable in the light of the current attitude of both professions to assisted dying, but the new Society was enthusiastic and introduced its first Private Member ’s Bill in the ...

Assisted dying is not the same as euthanasia.

In a recent response to The BMJ the retired general practitioner Philip Hartropp raised a key point about the misleading nature of the leaflet from the campaigning group Care Not Killing circulated in a recent edition of the journal.Hartropp said, “The ‘FACTS’ put forward by Care Not Killing in their leaflet have evidently been chosen to divert the debate away from assisted dying to assisted su...