Quote of the Day

Posted by Chris Spags on July 31st, 2009 at 2:15 pm

Some woman with multiple sclerosis wants to kill herself. Without getting into the heady debate on if that’s right or ethical or not, there is a certain twinge of irony to the quote and last line here.

A woman with multiple sclerosis has made legal history by winning her battle to have the law on assisted suicide clarified.

Debbie Purdy wanted to know if her husband would be prosecuted if he helped her end her life in Switzerland.

Five Law Lords ruled the Director of Public Prosecutions must specify when a person might face prosecution.

Ms Purdy, 46, from Bradford, said she was “ecstatic” at the ruling and she had been given her life back.

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