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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Tara Cobham

Bill to legalise assisted dying for terminally ill ‘is safest choice’, argues MP

A bill to legalise assisted dying for some terminally ill adults is the “safest choice” and the “strictest” in the world, the MP behind the new law has claimed as it is set to be published.

Mentally competent adults with a life expectancy of six months or less who have a settled wish to die that has been approved by two doctors and the High Court would be able to do so under the proposed legislation for England and Wales.

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