Assisted Dying Bill

Here is an interesting post from `Christian Medical Comment` which discusses the House of Lords Assisted Dying Bill. `Leading parliamentary think tank says Lord Falconer’s ‘Assisted Dying’ Bill fails public safety test`

Living and Dying Well (LDW) is a public policy research organisation established in 2010 to promote clear thinking on the end-of-life debate and to explore the complexities surrounding 'assisted dying' and other end-of-life issues. It has just published a comprehensive report on Lord Falconer’s Assisted Dying Bill which was introduced into the House of Lords on 15 May.

Lord Falconer's Assisted Dying Bill [HL Bill 24] is the fourth of its kind to come before the House of Lords in the last ten years and seeks to authorise assisted suicide for mentally competent adults with less than six months to live.

None of its predecessors has made progress and the last one (Lord Joffe's Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill) was rejected in May 2006.

http://pjsaunders.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/leading-parliamentary-think-tank-says.html


An article in the Telegraph  headed `We legalise assisted dying at our peril` puts forward a very balanced view against the proposed legislation. There are heated arguments in the commentary which follows the article indicating what an emotive topic this is.