Tribunals needed for Assisted Suicide in the UK
A new tribunal style system to provide sympathetic and speedy consideration for each and every terminally-ill patient who wishes to end their lives is needed according to Claudia Carr, from the University of Hertfordshire’s School of Law. The proposed system is being presented in a paper at the 1stGlobal Conference on Suicide, Self-Harm and Assisted Dying being held in Athens this week.The ethical and legal debates around assisted dying or assisted suicide, where an individual helps another person with the means to end his or her own life, remain in the media’s spotlight. However, the