Guernsey votes on assisted dying laws for terminally ill
GUERNSEY is due to vote today on whether to let terminally ill people end their lives with the help of a doctor.
A debate on the proposed law change opened at the Channel Island’s parliament yesterday.
It would let mentally competent people with six months or less to live to end their life with a medic’s aid. If the 40-strong parlia- ment agrees by majority vote, a consultation will be held on assisted dying, illegal in the rest of the British Isles. Bake Off star Prue Leith, 78, yesterday said she hoped they “vote yes” after watching her brother David die of bone cancer in 2012. She said: “He had a very painful, miserable death.” But the Dean of Guernsey, the Very Rev Tim Barker, said he was “uncomfortable” about whether the law was “safe for the most vulnerable people”.