As Kim Leadbeater’s Assisted Dying Bill returned to parliament, critics’ attention turned to a previously unsuspected cohort that might soon be rolling down the slippery slope. Evidence delivered to her committee revealed that at least 60 patients with eating disorders …
What the death bill tells us about life
In my late twenties, I became clinically depressed and prone to bouts of suicidal ideation — “suicidal”, in un-medical English. From 1993 to 1998 I lived in northern Italy; paradise, apparently, but to me it felt more like a J.G. …
Assisted dying ignores what it means to be human
Of all people, you might expect humanists to have protecting human life at the core of their ideological DNA. Instead, they are queuing up to plunge in the needle of death. This week, as Parliament prepares to debate the assisted …
