LONDON, February 20, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Joel Joffe, the retired human rights lawyer who defended Nelson Mandela in the 1963 treason trial that ended in Mandela’s life imprisonment, is sponsoring a bill to give terminally-ill British patients the right to die. Lord Joffe’s Assisted Dying Bill—which observers say has “little chance” of making it into law —provides for a competent adult suffering from a terminal disease or a serious, incurable physical illness to submit a written request for medical assistance to die, provided a second medical opinion confirms the disease is terminal. For local coverage: https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2782887.stm
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