Scots Doctors Take Lead Role in the 'Death with Dignity' Debate

Mail on Sunday › June 16, 2005

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SCOTTISH doctors are divided over legislation that would allow them to help terminallyill patients take their own lives.

Lib-Dem MSP Jeremy Purvis has tabled a Private Member's Bill at Holyrood to legalise assisted suicide, which would mean doctors prescribing lethal doses of drugs to patients who want to die.

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Scots Doctors Take Lead Role in the 'Death with Dignity' Debate

But members of the Lothian branch of the British Medical Association (BMA) have sub...

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