The campaign for assisted suicide seems to be picking up a head of steam in the UK with the Mental Capacity Bill…: “It is certainly a step in the direction of the legalisation of assisted suicide, despite the protestations of its defenders. According to some readings of this bill, a patient may request that he or she is deprived of food and water in certain circumstances, and a doctor must obey this request or face a possible five years in prison. In addition to this, Lord Joel Joffe’s Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill is currently under review in the House of Lords.

It is worth picking apart some of the arguments for assisted suicide.” (spiked)