assisted suicide

They acknowledged such incidents would be "relatively rare" but said it would be "simply not possible to avoid such scenarios if assisted suicide were to be made legal".

The Netherlands, for example, has legalised assisted suicide and euthanasia.

He argued improving end-of-life care would ease people's fears of a painful death and make many cases of assisted suicide unnecessary.

Better end-of-life care would ease people’s fears of a painful death, making many cases of assisted suicide unnecessary, he said.

It is legal in fewer places than assisted dying or assisted suicide and patients do not necessarily have to be terminally ill, external.