TY - JOUR T1 - No decision about me without me JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 480 LP - 480 DO - 10.3399/bjgp13X671650 VL - 63 IS - 614 AU - Ilora Finlay Y1 - 2013/09/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/63/614/480.abstract N2 - Yet again there is an ‘assisted dying’ bill before the House of Lords. ‘Assisted dying’ is a euphemism for assisted suicide. But what is being proposed isn’t just assisted suicide, it is physician-assisted suicide. What Lord Falconer’s Private Member’s bill is proposing is to license doctors to supply lethal drugs to patients whom they believe to be terminally ill and mentally capable so that those drugs can be used by the patient to commit suicide.Those who want to see the law changed suggest that doctors should stand aside from this issue because it is ‘a matter for society as a whole’. Yes, it is; but it is not society as a whole that is being asked to carry it out. The people who would be in the frontline of any such law and who would be accountable for deciding whether a request for assisted suicide should be granted and for supplying the lethal drugs to carry it … ER -