More than two dozen jurisdictions around the world \u2013 including New Zealand, Canada, Switzerland, Belgium, 10 states in the US and all six states in Australia \u2013 allow some form of assisted dying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bills to legalise assisted dying are now going through parliaments in the Isle of Man, Jersey and Scotland. What about the rest of the UK?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Westminster parliament is expected to debate the issue in the coming months. The Labour peer Charlie Falconer, a former Lord Chancellor, has published a Lords\u2019 Private Member\u2019s Bill to legalise assisted dying, and the Labour MP Jake Richards is considering bringing forward a Commons’ Private Member’s Bill\u00a0after coming 11th in a ballot last week. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has backed a free vote on the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This week, we learned that a citizens\u2019 jury has overwhelmingly backed the legalisation of assisted dying for terminally ill people after hearing from experts over a period of eight weeks. Twenty out of 28 jurors based in England agreed the law should be changed, with seven disagreeing and one person saying they were undecided. More information on that citizens’ jury here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I would support the legalisation of assisted dying in particular circumstances with appropriate safeguards. Now aged 76, one day I might want it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" More than two dozen jurisdictions around the world \u2013 including New Zealand, Canada, Switzerland, Belgium, 10 states in the US and all six states in Australia \u2013 allow some form of assisted dying. Bills to legalise assisted dying are now going through parliaments in the Isle of Man, Jersey and Scotland. What about the rest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29401"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29406,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29401\/revisions\/29406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}