Care Not Killing is a UK-based alliance, launched in 2006, which brings together disability and human rights organisations, healthcare and palliative care groups, and faith-based organisations, with the aims of:
1. Promoting more and better palliative care
2. Ensuring that existing laws against euthanasia and assisted suicide are not weakened or repealed
3. Influencing public opinion
CNK seeks to attract the broadest support among the very many in the medical profession and allied health services and in society at large who are opposed to euthanasia. It appeals to those of all faiths and none by adducing arguments based on reason alone, by avoiding any appeals to extremism, and by drawing on and developing a well-researched evidence base.
CNK aims to:
1. Maintain an excellent website with links to well founded research on the effects of legalising euthanasia and assisted suicide
2. Marshall support against Bills to legalise euthanasia or assisted suicide
3. Cultivate a network of expert spokespeople and produce powerful advocacy in the media
4. Monitor developments in the courts
5. Campaign positively for increased provision of better palliative care, including more funding for hospices and better residential care for the infirm elderly and for the dying, recognising that the fear of dying alone and in pain is a powerful driver of the pro-euthanasia movement
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