This week the Crown Prosecution Service produced an interim policy to guide the prosecution of those wishing to travel overseas with loved ones who want to end their own lives due to terminal illness. This clarification was triggered by a court case taken by Debbie Purdy, a sufferer of multiple sclerosis. She successfully persuaded the Law Lords that it was her human right to have it clarified whether her husband would be prosecuted upon his return to the UK if he travelled to Switzerland to be with her when she killed herself.
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Life and Death
Last week the law lords ruled that the director of public prosecution has to clarify whether people travelling over-seas to assist a loved one commit suicide would be prosecuted upon their return to the country. More than 100 Britons have travelled abroad to end their lives, with no cases to date being brought against those who journeyed with them to be there in their final hours.