The noble and learned Lord seems to agree with my point and speaks as though it would automatically be taken into account. Would it not be safer to have it spelled out in the Bill—that one of the marks that the decision was voluntary is that those looking into the person’s decision were assured that that person was not acting out of a sense of duress because they felt a burden?
Assisted Dying Bill [HL]
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Harries of Pentregarth
(Crossbench)
in the House of Lords on Friday, 7 November 2014.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Assisted Dying Bill [HL].
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2014-15
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