The Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP), a controversial protocol designed originally to ensure that patients at the end-of-life receive appropriate care, has come under severe criticism over the last year and more, prompting a high-level Health Department Inquiry into its operation. The Department of Health (DoH) in England set up an independent review amid fears the LCP was being used to hasten death, to clear beds and save money, and that patients or their families were not being consulted.As this BBC report explains, even though there are many who defend the LCP who clearly have been using it appropriately, there have been many reported cases of abuse and misapplication of the process that have resulted int he premature death of patients. Continue reading

John Cleese's famous character Basil Fawlty, in an incoherent state in the famous Fawtly Towers episode, screeched repeatedly (and ignored himself) the phrase, 'Don't mention the War!' Anti-euthanasia campaigners were once counselled likewise not to mention the Nazi horrors.  Yet the aphorism that 'those who fail to remember the past are doomed to repeat it' also has currency. At the announcement of a new memorial to the horrors of the T4 program, which was the precursor to the Nazi death camps, it's worth recalling where and how this tragic period in world history actually began. Continue reading

Dr Chai Patel, who overseas 230 nursing homes in Britain is calling for establishment of suicide clinics.  According to the  Continue reading

The Dignitas suicide clinic in Basel Switzerland caused the death of Pietro D'Amico, a 62-year-old magistrate from Calabria in southern Italy, in April, 2013 after D'Amico received a wrong diagnosis.  Assisting suicide and euthanasia must be prohibited because the decision of one person to end the life of another person is irrevocable. People who are not terminal or living with depression, cannot be treated for their condition once they are dead. Continue reading

The following article was written by Dr Peter Saunders, the campaign director for the Care Not Killing Alliance, and published on his blog on July 8, 2013 under the title:  . Continue reading

From the   this report on the building of a memorial to the over 200,000 people who died under the T4 euthanasia program that, itself, was the impetus for the Nazi extermination camps during the Second World War:German DW website Continue reading

Last evening 50 HOPE supporters gathered at the  Pagoda Chinese Restaurant in Adelaide to officially launch the Australian Edition of Alex Schadenberg's book:  Continue reading

, campaign director of the UK's CareNotKilling alliance, explains why the Royal College, and other medical groups, should retain their opposition to assisted suicide. Dr. Peter Saunders  Continue reading

UK CareNotKilling director, , expands on the situation in France.Dr Peter Saunders Continue reading

This is a great little reflection from  The B.C. Catholic newspaper on the risk that the Quebec euthanasia bill poses for vulnerable people and the death penalty, removed in Canada for the very same reason: Continue reading