http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/nov/26/iain-duncan-smith-unlawfully-dicriminated-against-the-disabled-rules-judge?CMP=fb_guRead more... )

Message today (15th Aug 2015) from Sarah Wootton at Dignity in Dying. ( cut for mention of terminal illness and assisted suicide )

You might be interested in this. One third more appeals lodged than in the previous year ( Read more... )

Today in our British House of Lords, the Assisted Dying Bill is to be debated. ( Read more... )

Yesterday the UK Supreme Court rejected a case about assisted dying, but the campaigners haven't given up. ( cut for possible trigger )

http://www.chronicchronicles.co.uk/blog/2013/11/06/victory-against-bedroom-tax-by-person-with-disability/

Today Paul Lamb and the late Tony Nicklinson's family ( cut for possible trigger )

It's almost exactly a year since I wrote, on this comm, that death may come on a surfboard but it doesn't come cheap. Most of the arrangements I wanted to make, described in that post, are in place now and I still don't want to die. I won't be ready for the Grim Reaper for a long time yet ( Read more... )

You might want to see this blog post about crip benefits. The previous post in that blog, on the same topic, is well worth a look too.

Today it's been announced that Tony Nicklinson has died a few days after being refused assurance of legal protection for whoever might help him to die.