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assisted dying

Just how bad can things get?

DATE : 22 May 2025 AUTHOR : VFJUK Webmaster

Just when you think things can’t get any worse, events seem to defy all expectation … and they do. After the UK’s hard-fought separation from Europe, for instance, Keir Starmer appears to have engineered an agreement to make us once again subject to EU rules, only this time minus the voting rights that previously allowed us […]

Urgent – Psychiatrists withdraw support for assisted suicide

DATE : 15 May 2025 AUTHOR : VFJUK Webmaster

In a surprise move, the Royal College of Psychiatrists has dropped its support for the Assisted Dying Bill, saying that there is a danger people suffering from depression will use it to get help to commit suicide, and that there is inadequate scrutiny of the medical condition of those seeking help to die. The RCP’s opposition […]

VFJUK: NHS or NDS, you choose

DATE : 7 April 2025 AUTHOR : VFJUK Webmaster

Don’t let the National Health Service become the National Death Service Contact your MP today Whether of others or for oneself, there are those who want to make death a human right. Someone should perhaps tell our determined activists that they don’t need to advocate for this, because death at some point is going to come […]

VFJUK: Say NO to assisted suicide!

DATE : 4 February 2025 AUTHOR : VFJUK Webmaster

It’s official: Government data reveals that 1 in 5 people given less than six months to live are still alive 3 years later Good news for those told they haven’t got long to live, of course, but in cash-strapped Britain the financial implications are proving a real headache to the benefit system, which gives special, […]

Important – Have Your Say!

DATE : 18 January 2025 AUTHOR : VFJUK Webmaster

Two new important calls for evidence, both relating to medical ‘treatment’ at the end of life: (1) The House of Commons Public Bill Committee, currently reviewing the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, is calling for evidence from people with ‘relevant experience’ of those at the end of life. This includes not just medical staff and clinicians, […]