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Minister of State for Innovation John Halligan says he believes in assisted suicide and would help someone if they were terminally ill and in pain. The Independent Waterford TD has written an assisted suicide Bill which he hopes will be introduced shortly. “The objective of the Bill is that people who are terminally ill, who will die within six months, who are going through

James Leonard Park, advocate of the right-to-die, made us aware of a new UK initiative in the House of Lords: Bill 42, 2016-2017. On his website (worth visiting: a good source for information!) he has reformatted the text of this Bill for easier reading on computer screens and added comments.

The Leonetti/Claeys End-of-Life law came into force this month. The text was adopted in February 2016, after several years of debate and creates new rights for patients at the end of life. The End of life Act completes the Leonetti law which, since 2005, grants a right to let to die and gives the possibility to terminate therapeutic persistence. This law however does not deal with legalising active euthanasia or assisted suicide. Patients get two possibilities: firstly, a right to "deep and continuous sedation until death", i.e. a right to fall asleep before dying without suffering. A patient with a serious and incurable disease

Procon.org published a clear sketch on the situation in the world regarding the right to die. Visit their special page here.

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