Recently in Suicide Category

Personalisation, I am in no doubt, would transform the lives of mental health service users and lead to better outcomes. Before I'd even heard of self-directed-support, I was lobbying for it. Why, I wondered, does nobody listen to my own assessment of my needs? There is one reason that appears to preoccupy the minds of everyone I've met involved in commissioning services: that of risk.

writes Simon Stevens


It is time we challenged the cosy assumptions of those who support assisted dying and explode the "dignity" myth

After a lot of recent publicity, it appears that public support for euthanasia for people with terminal illnesses and now disabled people in general has risen.