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Article: Let us legalise assisted dying ; Should the terminally ill be allowed to choose when they die? Ashley Riley, above, head of campaigns and communications at lobby group Dignity in Dying, believes that all mentally competent, dying patients should have the right to euthanasia
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- Western Daily Press (Bristol UK)
- Article date:
- November 19, 2007
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Should the terminally ill be allowed to choose when they die?
Ashley Riley, above, head of campaigns and communications at lobby
group Dignity in Dying, believes that all mentally competent, dying
patients should have the right to euthanasia
The story of Neville Badger's tragic death recently highlighted a
desperate need for a change in the law to ensure that more is done
to protect the terminally ill.
The MS sufferer died in a fire in his Weston-super-Mare home
after his care was reduced.
There needs to be strategies in place to ensure that excellent
quality palliative care is available to all terminally ill patients
as a basic right.
However, the issue of the legislation of medically ...