Category: Death and Dying

 The Commission on Assisted Dying published its report yesterday. It has concluded that it is possible to devise a legal framework that would set out strictly defined circumstances in which terminally ill people could be assisted to die. The work was funded by Sir Terry Pratche

Here ois a piece from BBC Radio wales ( starts 48 minutes 56 seconds in)   http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b018lc28/

'Why I Rejected the Report Calling for Assisted Suicide in the UK One of the commissioners who worked on a report into assisted dying has rejected its conclusions. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth A report by the Commission on Assisted Dying which claimed there is a "strong case" f

http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/hub.1324331373.html   From the Yorkshire Post Doctors may get power to help terminally ill people end life Published on Wednesday 4 January 2012 18:52 Doctors could be given the right to help terminally-ill people to die, under pro

As I return from a relaxing post Christmas break I am preparing for what is bound to be a media storm tommorrow morning as the Report from the Commission is published   "The current legal status of assisted dying is inadequate and  incoherent...” My own position will be ma

  All of us swim in the one sea of our lives, trying to stay afloat as best we can, clinging to such life-lines and preservers as we might draw about us: reason and science, faith and religious practice, art and music and imagination. But in the end the wall go down, we all

  What might it mean this Advent to follow St Benedict’s injuction to keep death daily before our eyes? Perhaps our friends might think us morbid; but we could discover in this embrace a better way to live. Keeping death daily before our eyes means thinking about how our own d

    When death comes like an iceberg between the shoulder blades, I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering what is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness? And therefore I look upon everything as a brotherhood and a sisterhood, and I look upon time

  But Lord Falconer, who is chairing the Commission On Assisted Dying, said it would be "objective, dispassionate and authoritative". It will receive evidence from experts and the public before publishing a report in December 2011. Earlier this year the Crown Prosecution Servi

On Thursday eevening I had the pleasure of talking to clergy from Sion College - and as well as their warm hospitality I found them altogether a sane, humane and reflective bunch. The reflections following a tour of Highgate Cemetery. Here is an edited part of the talk: Victor

In his living and in his dying. Michael knew the joy of contemplating God and the delight of living virtuously. Without realizing it, such people are fulfilling St Benedict’s injuction to keep death daily before our eyes. They would be surprised if anybody called them morbid;

A book review that appeared in last weeks Church Times Death: Our Future Christian theology and funeral practice Edited by: Peter C. Jupp November 2008; Epworth Press; Paperback; 300pages; £25.00; ISBN:  9780716206385           In an age dominated by con

Have a look at this web page which is the fruit of collaborative work with Pauline Smith: www.wellbeingindying.org.uk        www.wellbeingindying.org.uk