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 * Call for Assisted Dying Bill to Become Law in England**

According to the British #|Medical Journal Dr Fiona Godlee, editor in chief, Dr Tony Delamothe, UK editor and Rosamund Snow, call for Lord Falconer's Assisted Dying Bill, which is expected to receive its second reading in the House of Lords this month, to eventually become law.(BMJ) These experts argue that people should be able to exercise choice over their lives, which should include how and when they die, when death is knocking at their door. To me this should be called assisted suicide (Boyd, 220) and not assisted dying (Boyd, 240) because that's exactly what you are doing; taking your own life with a little bit of help. And what absolutely blows my mind is that the majority of the British public want the option too! According to the BMJ the 2010 British Social Attitudes #|survey shows that 82% of people are in favor of a change in the law on "assisted dying". Thankfully however, the Supreme Court president said that unless parliament satisfactorily addresses the Suicide Act 1961, which prevents #|doctors helping patients to end their lives (aka assisted suicide), the court could force change upon them by declaring the act incompatible with the European convention on human rights. (Boyd, 110)


 * References:**

Boyd, Denise Roberts., and Helen L. Bee. // Lifespan Development //. Sixth ed. Boston : Pearson Allyn & #|Bacon, 2012. #|Print.

BMJ-British Medical Journal. (2014, July 2). Call for Assisted Dying Bill to become law in England. ScienceDaily. Retrieved August 6, 2014 from www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/07/140702203910.htm

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