Politicians in Jersey have taken the first major steps toward legalising both euthanasia and assisted suicide.
Bishop Philip Egan of Portsmouth, the diocese which includes the Channel Islands, described the move as a “devastating” development which would put the lives of elderly people in grave danger.
Members of the States Assembly voted by 36 to 10, with three abstentions, in favour of a proposition to introduce doctor-assisted death for people who are either terminally ill or judged to be suffering unbearably from an incurable physical condition.
