The Commission on Assisted Dying published its report yesterday. It has concluded that it is possible to devise a legal framework that would set ou
Commission for assisted Dying – radio interviews
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Here ois a piece from BBC Radio wales ( starts 48 minutes 56 seconds in)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b018lc28/
The Commission on Assisted Dying – more news reports
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'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 rejec
The Commission on Assisted Dying – news reports
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From the Yorkshire Post
Doctors may get power to help terminally ill people end life
The Commission on Assisted Dying Report
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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 Commi
We need to talk about death!
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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
GRACE APPROACHING
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There is a grace approaching
that we shun as much as death,
it is the completion of our birth.
It does not come in time,
Commission of assisted dying – why I joined.
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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;
who died?
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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 t
Commission On Assisted Dying
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But Lord Falconer, who is chairing the Commission On Assisted Dying, said it would be "objective, dispassionate and authoritative".
It will receiv
We all swim then sink!
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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,
A Good Death?
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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 ar
Funerals
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A book review that appeared in last weeks Church Times
Death: Our Future
Christian theology and funeral practice
Edited by: Peter C. Jupp
Novemb
A Jewish Prayer for those who have died
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O Lord and King, who are full of compassion, God of the spirits and all flesh, in whose hands are the souls of the living and the dead, receive,
Well Being in Dying
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Have a look at this web page which is the fruit of collaborative work with Pauline Smith:
www.wellbeingindying.org.uk
www.wellbeingindyin
Saying the Unsayable
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I have been offering some reflections on the exhibition that took place in Centenary Square last week here are some image to give you a glimpse of how
Compassion, attachments, love and connections
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Further pictures from the Saying the Unsayable exhibition.
We had a very large number of images to choose from to illustrate this theme and interesti
Change and Decay in all around I see?
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The world round us is in a constant process of change and movement. Familiar buildings come and go. Nothing that is built will last forever. These
Saying the Unsayable: Being Alive, hope and death
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The images here depict those aspects of living, dying, death that would not ordinarily be available for us to capture in our everyday lives here
Saying the Unsayable
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Over the next few days I want to share with you some reflections and pictures from an exhibition that will run in Centenary Square Birmingham from the