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Assisted Suicide

Categories: Births/Deaths,Great Britain,Laws/Regulations,Religion/Ethics

http://www.parliament.uk/briefing-papers/SN04857.pdf

Provides information about the offense of assisting a terminally-ill person to commit suicide when the person may not be able to do so without the assistance of family or friends.  Follows a January 2012 report from the Demos think-tank calling for development of a new legal framework for assisted suicide in Britain.  Reviews past cases and attempts to revise the law.  From the Library of the House of Commons