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Originally Posted by Itshim
The assisted dying bill.
Looking at my life insurance policies, it will not pay out in the case of suicide. So the question is what would insurance companies call assisted dying.  your choice so is it suicide or as a doctor did it a kind of murder, see a legal nightmare ahead |
It is assisted suicide. Despite Kim Death-Eater disliking the term, the bill has the effect (amongst other things) of amending the Suicide Act so someone assisting another to die is not, subject to conditions, committing a crime. She prefers ‘assisted dying’ because even she knows it’s a hard sell without assistance from a euphemism.
It is not murder, which is a common law offence in which one person kills another unlawfully (i.e. common law acknowledges that there are legal reasons why one person might kill another). As a common law offence there is no Murder Act in English law. Lawful and unlawful killing of others is defined in legal precedent and other legislation.