ASSISTED SUICIDE BILL – TIME TO COMMENT

Submitted by Editor on Thu, 06/05/2010 - 12:49

Independent Lothians MSP Margo Macdonald is campaigning for assisted suicide to be made legal in Scotland.

She advocates the Netherlands system, where registered doctors with a long-standing connection to a terminally ill patient can hasten that patient's painless end.

Whilst popular in principle with many ordinary people across Scotland, Macdonald's End of Life Assistance (Scotland) Bill is not without critics, some even among those ethicists and medical professionals one might expect to be in favour.

We all have until 12 May to comment.

To find out more, visit www.scottish.parliament.uk. The new blogsite at www.exiteuthenasia.wordpress.com offers measured coverage of this and related issues.