Design Act on deadly adults provides for assistance in the end of life to people at least 18 years old from England and Wales, who have been under the care of a doctor for at least 12 months and having mental ability, that without coercion or pressure Make such a choice and express it in a clear, conscious and decisive way.
A person who expected that he will not survive for more than six months could apply for help in ending his life. She would have to make a declaration of willingness to end her life twice, and her fulfillment of criteria would have to confirm two independent doctors at least a week. The doctor would prepare a death agent, but the patient would have to take him himself.
Forcing someone to a statement that he wants to take his own life, would be unlawful and threatened with a penalty of 14 years in prison. The bill was reported by the Kim Leadbeater Labor Party Party MP.
Before voting on Friday, the third reading of the bill was held and a political debate lasting several hours. At that time, a few corrections were voted. MPs, among others They decided to extend the ban on advertising assisted dying throughout the UK. Politicians also voted for rejecting the amendment, which prevents the person for whom the main motivation is the feeling that he is a burden for loved ones, qualifying for the procedures of assisted death. The government also undertook to publish a report on palliative care within a year of the entry of the Act.
