Last September, the influential British Medical Association ended its opposition to “physician-assisted dying”. -AFPPixMolly Meacher's voice quivers with emotion as she tells how her aunt took her own life after her liver cancer tumour grew to the size of a football.
Meacher, 81, has drafted a law to legalise assisted dying in England for the terminally ill with less than six months to live, an act currently punishable by up to 14 years in prison. “Things are moving in the right direction, there are a number of British Isles jurisdictions that are looking at changing the law,“ said Sarah Wootton, head of the Dignity in Dying campaign group.Last September, the influential British Medical Association ended its opposition to “physician-assisted dying”, taking the “historic step” of adopting a neutral position.
If you have £10,000 for flights, hotels and food, you can go to a country such as Switzerland to die, he said. “All I’m asking for is somebody to assist me with that death when it will be unbearable, to accelerate things. It’s a rational act.” Welby, the most senior cleric in the worldwide Anglican communion, also told the BBC that “sadly people make mistakes in their diagnosis”.While it will not necessarily become law a similar bill before the Scottish Parliament has much more chance of success “within a year-and-a-half”, she said.
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