The strategy of those who are trying to legalise assisted suicide in Britain is to claim that doctors help their patients to die every day already. All reform would mean is regularising this activity, expanding choice for patients, and building in more transparent safeguards, they insist. But that is utterly false. Physician-assisted suicide uses different drugs and different medical strategies from traditional palliative care, which does not aim to end life.
I was recently interviewed about this by James Mildred from the Christian advocacy group CARE, as assisted suicide is being debated afresh by politicians and others here in the UK in recent times.