Assisted suicide

The House of Lords was split recently on whether to back assisted dying, as supporters argued it would end the excruciating suffering of the terminally ill and opponents warned it was “a whisker away” from euthanasia. Sivakumar Sathasivam, Consultant Neurologist, The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Lower Lane, Liverpool talks about some of the moral theories around the subject.  The debate on assisted suicide was recently thrust into the limelight again when an 83-year-old man was reported to be the first British person to end his own life through assisted suicide at the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland because he was in