3 Lord Joffe has since redrafted his bill, which had its formal first reading in November 2005.Įuthanasia in the UK is illegal, but the application of the law is not always clear. 2 A House of Lords select committee recently produced a report on Joel Joffe's Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill, and recommended that, in future, assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia be debated separately, allowing the possibility of a change in the law for one but not the other.
In the UK, the issue of euthanasia has been widely debated since the 1870s, 1 and many argue that the question of the right to die has become one of the most important in contemporary ethics. In Australia, the Northern Territory approved euthanasia in 1995, but in 1997 this bill was overturned by parliament. Assisted suicide, with or without the involvement of a doctor, is legal in Switzerland. Doctor‐assisted suicide is legal in The Netherlands, Belgium and Oregon. The Netherlands and Belgium permit euthanasia performed by a doctor, and define it as the act, undertaken by a third party, which intentionally ends a person's life at his or her request.
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