We Can Still Stop the Radical UK Assisted Suicide Bill

On November 29 a majority of MPs in the British Parliament voted in favour of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill at its Second Reading. The current law, the Suicide Act 1961, makes it a crime for anyone to “encourage or assist” another person to take their own life. It protects everyone equally from being encouraged or assisted to attempt suicide, irrespective of the health of the person being encouraged or assisted. Guidance on the use of prosecutorial discretion focuses on the reluct