Posted on 03/25/2025 6:02:47 AM PDT by RandFan
Proposed laws to give terminally ill adults on the Isle of Man the right to choose to end their own lives have been agreed by the Manx parliament.
It means the bill can now be sent for Royal Assent, making it the first parliament in the British Isles to take this step.
Under the provisions in the Assisted Dying Bill 2023, adults with a prognosis of 12 months or less to live would be given the right to choose to die.
Those eligible would have to be over the age of 18, and have lived on the island for five years.
The Royal Assent process is where the monarch formally approves a bill passed by parliament for it to become law.
Members of the Legislative Council agreed to the latest changes made to the Assisted Dying Bill 2023 by the House of Keys at a sitting earlier.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
For now it’s “to choose”. Give it a few years and “mandatory” will work its way in...
I suppose it will only be a matter of time until those decisions will be allowed to the government there.
BBC headline “First” place makes it sound as if it’s good and more should follow. It would be equally proper to say the Isle of Man is the “Only” place that is experimenting with this.
Right to Die? They’ve always had that, its called “The Isle of Man TT”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Man_TT
Futurama
Suicide booths
Should be one on every street corner, lol
right to die councilors to convince and get this financial burden off the docket
It’s everyone’s right to take their own life. Granted, it’s a slippery slope when others are involved. That’s where informed consent comes in.
As our nation ages the issue will come more into focus. Communist countries like Cuba have death panels and rituals I’ve read. Since those places are universally poor it’s easier for the old to just get out of the way.
Muhammadan Isles.
Fixed it.
Isle of dead man.
Right to Die . . . dead as British society.
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