Assisted suicide: increased support for a change in the law.
Calls for a change in the law to allow strictly controlled forms of assisted dying in the UK continue following a recent attempt to change the law and an announcement by the Royal College of Nursing that it was shifting its position on the issue from opposition to a neutral stance. In this article Richard Griffith and Cassam Tengnah review the current stance of the law on assisted dying and discuss laws that allow assisted dying in Australia, Europe and the USA.
Griffith
Richard
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School of Health Science, Swansea University. richard.griffith@swan.ac.uk
Tengnah
Cassam
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D001294:Attitude to Health; D001530:Belgium; D034462:Dissent and Disputes; D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006801:Humans; D008189:Luxembourg; D009426:Netherlands; D009922:Oregon; D018579:Patient Selection; D028662:Principle-Based Ethics; D011637:Public Health Nursing / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D011639:Public Opinion; D012297:Right to Die / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D012944:Social Support; D017236:Suicide, Assisted / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D013557:Switzerland; D006113:United Kingdom