LONDON - Scores of MPs are pushing for broader access to assisted suicide ahead of the introduction of a Bill to legalise the practice. They say people who are suffering “incurably” should be able to ask for lethal drugs to take their own lives along with those who have terminal illnesses.
In jurisdictions where this has been allowed, people with mental-health illnesses, such as anorexia, post-traumatic stress disorder and autism, have been killed at the hands of their doctors. Their demand comes just days after Kim Leadbeater, the Labour MP for Spen Valley, announced she would table a Private Member’s Bill in the House of Commons on October 16 to permit doctor-assisted death for people who are terminally ill.
