If you are older than 50 and can declare you are of sound mind, you are cordially invited to learn how to kill yourself.
Those are my words, but they might as well have come from Dr Philip Nitschke, whose suicide roadshow was touring the UK accompanied by Radio 4, which was given rare access to one of the Australian physician's workshops on ending it all.
With new guidance governing prosecutions for assisted suicide due next week, the former TV presenter Ray Gosling's candid confession that he helped a lover die may achieve the opposite to what was (presumably) intended.
At last the director of public prosecutions has clarified the instances in which it may be permissible - but not legal - to assist someone to take their own life.
Debbie Purdy is satisfied that the court system has done all it can to answer her call for clarification on the law regarding assisted suicide.
Yesterday's High Court decision in the Debbie Purdy case has opened up fears of a flood of prosecutions against people who have helped terminally ill relatives end their lives.
By Mike McNabb
A review of the law on assisted suicide is well overdue, so it is welcome that two judges yesterday ordered one after hearing a case brought by Debbie Purdy, who has primary progressive multiple sclerosis.
| Outside Left questions the thinking behind today’s social policy, with a sometimes wry, occasionally cynical, always straight-talking look at the political elite that shapes it, written by sub editor, Mike McNabb. |
| Outside Left home |
 |
Follow Outside Left on Twitter |
| Email: | Mike McNabb |