... " category: Scottish churches worried about assisted suicide 'guidelines' By Trevor ... Ecumenical News International, "As a church we are against assisted suicide. But we believe there should be constructive debate on the subject in the Scottish ... backed calls for clarity on whether people who help someone commit suicide should be prosecuted.  The Labour Party's Lord ...

... story highlighting the absurdity of UK policies regarding assisted suicide (although most other countries aren’t performing any better): Dr ... accompanied him to Switzerland and has since been arrested on suspicion of aiding a suicide. Irwin … would welcome a criminal trial. He said: “ ... freedom, health, law, most absurd human rights violations, poverty Tagged: abortion, assisted ...

... . Hospitals can opt out and refuse to permit doctor-assisted suicides on their premises, but staff members who do not support that ... Rita Marker of the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide explains further. "Take for example a social worker ... options." According to Marker, one of those options was assisted suicide with assistance provided by Compassions and Choices, ...

Police raided the Melbourne offices of the assisted-suicide advocacy organization Exit International last Thursday, seizing documents related to ... its activities as merely providing people with knowledge and equipment to allow them to do what they want, not as actually assisting them in the act of suicide. According to Nitschke, such was the extent of Exit International’s contact with Ward. ...

... terminally ill.  “We have no interest, as a country, in being attractive for suicide tourism,” Justice Minister Eveline ... study last year showing that more and more people seeking assisted suicides in the country do not suffer from a terminal illness, ... topic if needed. Read the full story here. What do you think? Should assisted suicide be liberalised, restricted or banned altogether? ...

Assisted suicide has become a major topic in heated debates, which has become a moral and justice issue. The law is in doubt to validate a person's right to assisted suicide. For reasons many opponents would point out, assisted suicide negates traditional belief on the value of life.