Following a petition signed by “more than 155,000 people” calling for the legalization of “assisted death” for “mentally competent and terminally ill adults”, British MPs debated this subject on Monday July 4. Proposals are “in progress” in Scotland. Tonia Antoniazzi, Labor MP for Gower, who for her part underlines the “underfunding” of palliative care. As for the Ministry of Justice, it refers the decision to modify the law to Parliament. This is “a matter of conscience for individual parliamentarians rather than a matter of government policy,” he said. The government, then, “will make every effort” to apply the law.
