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A time to live, a time to die?
ANSELM ELDERGILL details the problems associated with the Assisted Dying Bill which has its second reading on Friday
LETHAL OBJECTION: Campaigners protest outside Parliament in Westminster against assisted dying, earlier this year

TO EVERY thing there is a season. A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to kill, and a time to heal. So says the Old Testament.

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill has its second reading in Parliament on Friday. It aims to give many adults with less than six months to live the right to end their life with medical assistance at a time of their choosing.

The proposed framework is relatively simple but controversial, and in some respects flawed.

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