Commission will say helping terminally ill people to commit suicide should be made legal under strict new safeguards
Helping terminally ill people to commit suicide should be made legal under strict new safeguards, a major independent report is expected to recommend this week.
The eagerly awaited advice from the Commission on Assisted Dying, chaired by Lord Falconer, a former lord chancellor, is likely to criticise the current legal framework and suggest that, in some cases, those who encourage or assist another to die should no longer be threatened with prosecution.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jan/01/assisted-dying-ban-report