In Westminster on Friday, Members of Parliament return to one of democracy's most intimate questions: whether the state should permit a person to choose the moment of their death when life has become unbearable and its end is near. The bill before the Commons would allow terminally ill adults with fewer than six months to live to seek an assisted death, subject to medical and panel approval — a narrowly drawn proposal that has nonetheless opened vast moral terrain. Supporters speak of suffering endured under the current law, of people too frail to travel abroad for what they cannot access at h
MPs to vote on assisted dying bill as debate intensifies over safeguards
Terminally ill individuals currently face restrictions on end-of-life choices; some travel abroad for assisted suicide while others report unbearable suffering under current law.