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British Relax Assisted-Suicide Laws

September 28, 2009 | ISSUE 45•40

A clarification of law makes it less likely that relatives of terminally ill people will be prosecuted in England for helping a loved one end his or her life. What do you think?

Won't this lead to a rash of terminally ill people being put out of their misery?"

Paul West
Systems Analyst
I have no problem, as long as they use the regulation suicide-assistance mallet."

Madison Brock
Media Consultant
It's a difficult issue, but I think there's a time in many Britons' lives when they must say, 'Fuck all, it's gone tits up the lot of it, so no more muckin' about like a silly cunt, yeah? Cheers.'"

Roger Milton
Television Presenter

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