{"id":147140,"date":"2018-06-27T10:06:15","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T10:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/noel-conway-terminally-ill-man-loses-assisted-dying-challenge\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T10:06:15","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T10:06:15","slug":"noel-conway-terminally-ill-man-loses-assisted-dying-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/noel-conway-terminally-ill-man-loses-assisted-dying-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Noel Conway: Terminally-ill man loses assisted dying challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Noel Conway\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/15B5D\/production\/_95252988_p04nkbyd.jpg\"\/><figcaption>Image caption                                      Noel Conway was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2014                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">A terminally-ill man who wants to be helped to die has lost his legal challenge at the Court of Appeal.<\/p>\n<p>Noel Conway, 68, who has motor neurone disease, has fought a legal battle for the right to a &quot;peaceful and dignified&quot; death.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Conway, from Shrewsbury, challenged an earlier High Court rejection of his case at a hearing in May.<\/p>\n<p>The retired lecturer said he now intends to take his fight to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>His case was rejected on Wednesday by three senior judges - Master of the Rolls Sir Terence Etherton, Sir Brian Leveson and Lady Justice King.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Midlands Live: Girl, seven, dies after brain tumour fight; Car crashes through wall of care home<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mr Conway wants a doctor to be allowed to prescribe him a lethal dose of drugs when his health deteriorates.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the ruling, Mr Conway said: &quot;I will keep fighting for myself and all terminally-ill people who want the right to die peacefully, with dignity and on our own terms.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>His appeal was opposed by the Secretary of State for Justice, David Gauke, with Humanists UK, Care Not Killing and Not Dead Yet UK also making submissions.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Peter Saunders, campaign director of Care Not Killing, said: &quot;This sensible decision by the Court of Appeal yet again recognises that the safest law is the one we already have - a complete ban on assisted suicide and euthanasia.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image caption Noel Conway was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2014 A terminally-ill man who wants to be helped to die has lost his legal challenge at the Court<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}