Bill doesn't go far enough

I AM immensely relieved that Parliament has passed the first stage of the Assisted Dying Bill.

- John Pearson, Spital Tongues

Rejection now, it is suggested, would have thrown the issue back into the long grass for another 10 years or more.

Happily, I am not myself terminally ill, but I have great concern for those who are, and for some amongst the long-term severely disabled community.

My regret, such as I have any, is that the Bill does not go nearly far enough. Its prime safeguard, the requirement for a prognosis of death within six months, is one of its greatest failings.