The Terminally-Ill Adults (end of Life) Bill seems increasingly likely to fail through lack of time, sharing the fate of most Private Members’ Bills. The Bill has been given much more time than PMBs are usually afforded, but it is vastly longer.
The Health, Sport and Social Care Committee of the Scottish Parliament has called for evidence on Liam McArthur MSP’s ‘Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill’. In the meantime, in the House of Lords, Lord Falconer has drawn second place in
World Suicide Prevention Day is held on 10 September each year to raise awareness of the terrible reality of suicide and to encourage people to think of practical and effective ways to help prevent it. The law obliges everyone at least not