Supporters

Miro Griffiths
Dr Miro Griffiths is a Leverhulme Research Fellow in Disability Studies at the University of Leeds, a policy adviser to regional, national, and supranational bodies and spokesperson for the Better Way campaign.

Juliet Spiller
Dr Juliet Spiller has worked as a consultant in Palliative Medicine since 2002 in hospice, hospital and community settings providing support for patients with terminal illness and their families. Her research interests within the field of palliative care include delirium, psychological interventions, shared decision-making and resuscitation decisions & communication.

Ashley Frawley
Originally from Canada and a member of Nipissing First Nation, Dr Ashley Frawley is senior lecturer in sociology and social policy at Swansea University in Wales. She lectures in the sociology of health, mental health and illness, social problems, social movements, and in the economics of social policy.

Kevin Yuill
Professor Kevin Yuill is CEO of Humanists Against Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia (HAASE) and emeritus professor of history at the University of Sunderland. His arguments against assisted suicide are set out in his book: Assisted Suicide: The Liberal, Humanist Case Against Legalisation.

Phil Friend

David A. Jones
David Albert Jones MA (Cantab), MA, MSt, DPhil (Oxon) is a Professor of Bioethics at St Mary’s University, a Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, and Director of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre. He has given evidence on the dangers of assisted suicide in various parliaments.

Allan house
Professor Allan House BSc (Lond), MBBS (Lond), MRCP (UK), MRCPsych, DM (Nottm) is emeritus professor of liaison psychiatry at the University of Leeds. He has worked as a consultant liaison psychiatrist in the NHS and as an academic researching and teaching in Nottingham, Oxford and Leeds. His areas of expertise focus on the overlap between physical and mental health, especially in people with severe physical illness, and on self-harm and suicide.

Louise Davies MBE
Louise Davies is Director of Advocacy and Policy at the charity CARE and former Director of Christians on the Left. In January 2023, she was appointed MBE for her work in political and charitable services.

JOEL B ZIVOT
Joel Zivot MD, FRCP(C) MA is a practicing anesthesiologist and intensive care doctor. A dual national of the US and Canada, he works against the medicalization of punishment in the setting of lethal injection. He is also a frequent commentator on medicine, the law, bioethics and policy.

Yuan Yi Zhu
Yuan Yi Zhu is a research fellow at the University of Oxford, where he studies the relationship between law and politics. He regularly writes about euthanasia, and in particular Canada’s expansionist euthanasia regime, which has drawn attention and concern worldwide.