Summary
THE guidelines on future prosecutions for assisting suicide only go to show the difficulty in legislating on this subject.
Suspects will be less likely to face charges if the person who committed suicide had a "clear, settled and informed wish" to do so. But for how long must he or she have held this wish before it becomes "settled"? A month? Six months? Six years? Again, if close relatives or friends in a "long-term and supportive" relationship are less likely to be prosecuted, what is the definition of long- term? Or even of supportive? Similar questions arise about how the police establish the motivation, and measure the prospective benefit, of a suspect.See the full content of this document
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