People who contemplate suicide due to serious illness need mental health care, not help to kill themselves, two palliative medicine experts have said. ONS analysisThe ONS found a higher rate of suicide among patients diagnosed with some chronic heart and lung conditions, and cancer with low survival rates. But Lady Finlay told Channel 4 News: “The law has only just been changed to make sure that specialist palliative care must be available to people who need it. “So, specialist palliative care must be available, people must not be left without the care that they need, without the support they need”. It was the twelfth time since 1997 that proposals for assisted suicide-related laws have not been passed by UK parliamentarians.

Source: The Times April 27, 2022 13:57 UTC