Sentence examples for assisting death from inspiring English sources

There is a distinct difference between assisting suicide and assisting death, and this is one of the reasons we fully support Lord Falconer's amendment to the coroners and justice bill, because it clarifies this distinction in law.

Yet, argue the supporters of Lord Joffe's private member's bill on assisted suicide shortly to be introduced to the House of Lords, if society concedes that, then it concedes the principle of assisting death in extreme distress, where the condition is clearly terminal as the lorry-driver's was.

Likewise, the Texas Defender Service, a nonprofit founded in 1995, built on the momentum generated by the Burdine case to become a significant force for training and assisting death-penalty lawyers.

Oregon's assisted death rate last year is the equivalent of over 2,000 physician-assisted deaths in England and Wales every year – and the numbers are still rising.

But it is one that prevents a doctor from being involved in an assisted death.

And yesterday, the author Terry Pratchett gave a speech calling for a new approach to assisted death.

Last year, the government finally published guidelines on dealing with assisted death.

Doctors have traditionally assisted death when there was no hope for life.

The Netherlands' assisted death rate also rose modestly at first before turning sharply upwards.

Of the European countries that have assisted death, only Holland does not require death to be more or less imminent.

That's why killing – whether in war, murder, suicide, or assisted death – can never result in a good death.