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Evening Standard
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Lydia Chantler-Hicks

France proposing to allow terminally ill patients to end their lives with lethal medication

France's government has presented a bill that would allow adults with terminal cancer or other incurable illnesses to legally take lethal medication.

As public demand grows for legal ways to assist dying, many French people have travelled to neighbouring countries where medically assisted suicide or euthanasia are legal.

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