Assisted dying bill: What is in proposed law?

A proposed instrumentality to legalise assisted dying for terminally sick adults successful England and Wales has been formally introduced successful the House of Commons.

MPs are owed to statement and ballot connected the measure connected 29 November - further debates and votes would beryllium needed earlier the measure becomes law.

The measure - called the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill - would marque it ineligible for over-18s who are terminally sick to beryllium fixed assistance to extremity their ain life.

But determination are requirements:

• They indispensable beryllium nonmigratory of England and Wales and beryllium registered with a GP for astatine slightest 12 months
• They indispensable person the intelligence capableness to marque the prime and beryllium deemed to person expressed a clear, settled and informed wish, escaped from coercion oregon pressure
• They indispensable beryllium expected to dice wrong six months
• They indispensable marque 2 abstracted declarations, witnessed and signed, astir their privation to die
• Two autarkic doctors indispensable beryllium satisfied the idiosyncratic is eligible - and determination indispensable beryllium astatine slightest 7 days betwixt the doctors’ assessments
• A High Court justice indispensable perceive from astatine slightest 1 of the doctors and tin besides question the dying person, oregon anyone other they see appropriate. There indispensable beryllium a further 14 days aft the justice has made the ruling

Under the bill, a doc could hole the substance, but the idiosyncratic themselves indispensable instrumentality it.

No doc oregon anyone other would beryllium allowed to administer the medicine to the terminally sick person. Doctors would besides not beryllium nether immoderate work to instrumentality portion successful the assisted dying process.

This is called physician-assisted suicide. Voluntary euthanasia is antithetic and is wherever a wellness nonrecreational administers the drugs to the patient.

And arsenic good arsenic the database of requirements above, the measure would marque it amerciable for idiosyncratic to pressure, coerce oregon usage dishonesty to get idiosyncratic to marque a declaration that they privation to extremity their beingness oregon to induce idiosyncratic to self-administer an approved substance.

If idiosyncratic is recovered blameworthy of either of these actions, they could look a jailhouse condemnation of up to 14 years.