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UK Commission on Assisted Dying Issues its report
The UK Commission on Assisted Dying has issued its report. Their conclusion: the current legal status of assisted dying is inadequate and incoherent.
The report is very timely as we currently wait for a decision on Gloria Taylor's challenge for the right to die. However, the recommendations in the report do not go as far as the rights sought by Gloria Taylor and the BC Civil Liberties Association.
In particular, the UK Commission recommends that assistance to die only be provided to those who are terminally (defined in part as having less than a year to live) and that assistance be restricted to the prescription of lethal medication which the patient must take themselves.
In contrast the current BC Court challenge seeks the right to assisted dying for individuals who are grievously and irremediably ill and the right to have that assistance provided by a physician where the patient is incapable of taking medication on their own.
Click here to download the report.
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