Not Dead Yet UK

Baroness Campbell, in her wheelchair in the centre of a richly-decorated room

July 27, 2017 0

Activists fighting ‘assisted suicide’ laws now need ‘hard facts’ for battle ahead

Disabled activists will need to seek out more “hard facts” if they want to fight off the continuing threat of efforts to persuade the courts to legalise assisted suicide, according to a crossbench peer. Baroness [Jane] Campbell spoke out after the campaign group of disabled people she founded, Not Dead Yet UK (NDY UK),

Activism and Campaigning

Two female wheelchair-users hold placards saying 'assisted suicide is not the solution'

July 13, 2017 0

Activists set for ‘David and Goliath’ fight to defeat assisted suicide court bid

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A group of disabled activists – led by a crossbench peer – are to intervene in a legal case for the first time next week, in a bid to persuade three high court judges not to weaken the law to allow assisted suicide. Not Dead Yet UK (NDY UK), a campaign group of disabled

Crime

Disabled people in front of the Japanese embassy

August 4, 2016

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Embassy vigil ‘will show solidarity with victims of Japanese mass killings’

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Activists are today (4 August) set to hold a vigil outside the Japanese embassy in central London to express their “horror and huge sadness” at last week’s mass killings of 19 disabled residents of a care institution in Japan. The idea for the vigil came from disabled activist Eleanor Lisney, who is east Asian

Human Rights

Two wheelchair-users protesting outside parliament, one of them (Dennis Queen) is holding a placard saying 'who will be next', and is wearing a Not Dead Yet UK tee-shirt

June 23, 2016

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Relief after doctors maintain strong opposition to assisted suicide

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Disabled activists have welcomed the decision of doctors to vote strongly against relaxing their union’s position on physician-assisted suicide. The British Medical Association (BMA) voted by 63 per cent to 37 per cent this week at its annual representative meeting (ARM) in Belfast to maintain its current position of being opposed to physician-assisted suicide.

Arts, Culture and Sport

May 26, 2016

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Activists protest outside premiere of ‘disability snuff movie’

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Appalled activists protested outside a London premiere last night after describing the film as a “disability snuff movie” that suggests disabled people are better off dead. The protest outside the Curzon Mayfair cinema in London’s West End was coordinated by the disabled people’s anti-euthanasia campaign group Not Dead Yet UK (NDY UK) in response

Activism and Campaigning

January 21, 2016

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Tributes paid to campaigner’s ‘steely determination, selflessness and dignity’

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Friends and fellow activists have paid tribute to the anti-euthanasia and disability rights campaigner Dr Kevin Fitzpatrick, whose life and death “epitomised the true meaning of dignity”. Fitzpatrick – who died on 15 January, leaving a wife, Fabienne, and three adopted children – played a huge part in the ongoing campaign to oppose the

Human Rights

Outside view of the Houses of Parliament

September 18, 2015

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Elation, relief… and dread, as MPs throw out assisted suicide bill

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Disabled activists have expressed elation and relief at the overwhelming defeat of an assisted suicide bill in the House of Commons, but fear that another attempt to change the law may not be far away. The private members’ bill put forward by Labour MP Rob Marris, which would have legalised assisted suicide for people

Activism and Campaigning

August 24, 2015

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COMMENT: Shakespeare’s bill is ‘deadly discrimination’

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Dennis Queen (pictured, right), a leading member of the campaign group Not Dead Yet UK, says the support of disabled academic Dr Tom Shakespeare for the assisted dying bill ignores its dangerous flaws What Tom has said is very disappointing to me. Tom seems more concerned about the few in a position to make

Human Rights

August 7, 2015

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Family fraud ‘explosion’ highlights fears of assisted suicide opponents

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An “explosion” of cases in which greedy relatives commit fraud by targeting members of their own family provides further evidence of why assisted suicide should not be legalised, say disabled activists. One of the strongest arguments for opposing legalisation is the risk that it will lead to some family members pressurising terminally-ill relatives to

Politics

July 24, 2015

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Calls for Green to resign over assisted suicide support

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Disabled people have expressed their anger and disappointment at the decision of Labour’s shadow disability minister to back legalising assisted suicide. Some disabled activists have called for Kate Green’s resignation, while others have not yet decided what action to take over her comments. Green’s admission came in an interview with Disability News Service (DNS)

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