Assisted suicide guidelines relaxed by Director of Public Prosecutions Doctors and nurses who help severely disabled or terminally ill people to take their own lives are less likely to face criminal charges. Doctors and nurses who help severely disabled or terminally ill people to take their own lives are less likely to face criminal charges after Britain’s most senior prosecutor amended guidelines on assisted suicide. Until now all health care professionals faced a greater chance than others of being prosecuted for helping people to die because of the trust their patients placed in them. Alison Saunders, the Director of Public Prosecutions, said this special deterrent would now only apply to those directly involved in a person’s care. Anti-euthanasia campaigners accused Ms Saunders of “decriminalising” assisted suicide by health care professionals “at a stroke of her pen”. telegraph.co.uk/health/11168519/Assisted-suicide-guidelines-relaxed-by-Director-of-Public-Prosecutions.html
Posted on: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 09:42:58 +0000
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