Swiss organisation calls for assisted dying to be legalised in UK and made available alongside palliative care
The assisted dying organisation Dignitas has told parliament “it’s about time” to legalise the practice in the UK and make it available alongside palliative care, describing the current rules as “inadequate and incoherent”.
Silvan Luley, a team member at the Swiss organisation, told a House of Commons assisted dying investigation his organisation had helped 540 British people kill themselves – more than one in seven of all deaths it had enabled. The process costs about £10,000.
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