Sentence examples for ill competent from inspiring English sources

Terminally ill, competent adults should be allowed to die on their own terms.

It is time to end the failed policy of prohibition and for states to enact laws to allow terminally ill, competent adults to die on their own terms.

Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe the law should empower terminally-ill, competent patients to choose how they will end their lives.

Its 10 points include the opportunity to create an end of life care plan and the right for terminally ill, mentally competent adults to have an assisted death.

Safeguards must be put in place to protect vulnerable people whilst ensuring that loved ones of terminally ill, mentally competent people, like Debbie Purdy, who choose this option, do not face prosecution".

On 7 November the House of Lords will debate an assisted dying bill proposed by Lord Falconer, which would allow terminally ill, mentally competent adults to receive life-ending medication from a doctor.

If it is passed into law it would be possible for terminally ill, mentally competent adults with a settled wish to die to be given a life-ending prescription by a doctor.

The law took effect in 1997, and allows for terminally ill, mentally competent patients with less than six months to live to request a prescription for life-ending medication.

Vermont will become the fourth state to make it legal for a physician to prescribe lethal medication to a terminally ill, mentally competent patient who wants to end his life.

It gives terminally ill, mentally competent people the option of an assisted death.

"Furthermore, strictly limited to terminally ill, mentally competent adults, the bill will not result in more people dying, but in fewer people suffering".