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Assisted suicide

Assisted suicide usually involves a health practitioner prescribing a lethal dose for a person to administer themselves, usually by swallowing a combination of drugs.

In the United Kingdom, the Suicide Act 1961 legalised the attempt to take one’s own life, but it kept illegal the assistance of another’s death. 

Assisted suicide is legal in a handful of jurisdictions globally including Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg and a small number of states in the US. 

Right To Life UK campaigns against any attempt to legalise assisted suicide, and for the development of palliative care services and end of life care that remove any perceived need for assisted suicide.

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Disability activist: prioritise NHS over assisted suicide bill

Disability activist: prioritise NHS over assisted suicide bill

A leading disability rights activist believes improving the NHS should be prioritised over Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide Bill. George Fielding a wheelchair user and disability rights activist with cerebral palsy has called for greater resources to be allocated to...

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