Campaigners win the fight to legalise assisted suicide
Sarah-Kate Templeton and David Leppard
Times of London
HELPING terminally ill and incurably disabled patients to commit suicide is set to be decriminalised in Britain under guidance to be issued this week.
Those who assist a friend or relative to end their lives on compassionate grounds will not be prosecuted, under guidelines to be announced by Keir Starmer QC, the director of public prosecutions.
However, it will still be a crime to act as “ringleader” or “organiser” of the death of a person who has been “vulnerable to manipulation”.
The guidelines are expected to make clear the difference between someone “assisting” and someone “encouraging” a suicide.
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Times of London
HELPING terminally ill and incurably disabled patients to commit suicide is set to be decriminalised in Britain under guidance to be issued this week.
Those who assist a friend or relative to end their lives on compassionate grounds will not be prosecuted, under guidelines to be announced by Keir Starmer QC, the director of public prosecutions.
However, it will still be a crime to act as “ringleader” or “organiser” of the death of a person who has been “vulnerable to manipulation”.
The guidelines are expected to make clear the difference between someone “assisting” and someone “encouraging” a suicide.
(Continued here.)
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Considering the “death panel” nonsense here in the States, this will never be discussed in Congress …. But should be.
I have a friend who just committed suicide … he has spent the last two years going through too many surgeries to count. He spent well over $100,000 out of his own pocket with doctors, hospitals, nursing homes and private care attendents… before going on the “county dime”. The money is not a consideration but he has been ready to go for a while … and all it took was for him to be alone for an hour …. Yet I know that if he had an opprotunity to talk with a medical professional who could determine that he was ready to die and that his prognois would not improve that he would have volunteered for an assisted suicide program … it would have saved him years and made his torment a lot easier.
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