UK Report to Recommend Legalization of Assisting Dying

According to the London Newspaper, the Observer, a soon to be released report in the UK will strongly recommend legalizing assisted suicide in tightly controlled circumstances.

In making the case for legalizing assisted dying, the article quotes Baroness Warnock (pictured) who says:

For one thing, it [the law] classes together the actions of some one who broadcasts encouragement to suicide to the world at large with one who agonisingly decides that, out of compassion, when asked to do so, he must help a person he loves to escape from suffering.

 

In stating the case for the right to assisted dying, Baroness Warnock believes it is imperative that doctors and nurses be protected from prosecution so that those seeking an end to their suffering have appropriate medical support to successfully achieve a peaceful death.

"Nothing could be more terrible than a botched suicide, a terminally ill person determined to die brought back to yet more horrible life."

Read the full article here.