Our good friends at Not Dead Yet UK got some significant coverage including photos in the Big Issue publication last month. Big Issue Group describes itself as media and other “initiatives under a shared mission to create innovative solutions through enterprise, to unlock social and economic opportunity for the millions of people in the UK … Continue reading Not Dead Yet UK Earns Media Coverage In “Big Issue”
Evidence of a Slippery Slope? By Not Dead Yet UK June 14, 2021 Supporters of our campaign to resist a law change on assisted suicide have continually expressed real concerns about the concept of “a slippery slope”. The idea that once assisted suicide is permitted for one group it isn’t long before it’s extended to … Continue reading Not Dead Yet UK: Evidence of a Slippery Slope?
The Government should be helping people to live – not die through assisted suicide The Telegraph Baroness Campbell 26 May 2021 Today a Bill to legalise assisted suicide is being presented in Parliament. Such a change has been considered many times in the past but has always been rejected for the same reasons. Despite what the propaganda … Continue reading Great Op-Ed By NDY UK Founder Baroness Jane Campbell
Looking at the picture of Noel Conway wearing a breathing mask like mine in today’s Guardian article “Terminally ill Noel Conway loses challenge to assisted dying ban“, I can’t help but feel a profound sense of relief. I acknowledge that acquiring a progressive neuromuscular disability later in life as Conway did is different than growing up with … Continue reading Important News From NDY UK: Noel Conway Loses His Assisted Suicide Court Case
A great opinion piece by Jamie Hale begins with a photo of two women in wheelchairs, seated in front of several artful props that suggest a graveyard. The photo has a caption above and below: I can see no safeguards to prevent people being pressured into ending their lives. What we need is more support … Continue reading NDY UK Advocate Jamie Hale On Why Disabled People Fear Assisted Suicide
