In reply to Coel Hellier:
> As I understand it, doctors are not unanimously opposed. Rather, they are about 60:40 opposed, and that's sufficient to mean that the BMA's official stance is opposition, despite a large minority of doctors supporting assisted dying. For what it's worth, polls also show about three quarters of nurses in favour.
It's (probably) only the BMA members which are counted in that statistic too.
Lots of doctors are not BMA members and have their own views.
I'm not sure what the actual statistics are but from personal experience it always seems around 50:50. Public opinion to me has always seemed a lot closer than the Commons vote would suggest.
Presumably if such a bill was passed not every individual doctor would have to practice assisted dying/euthanasia, but would maybe have to refer to a clinic (like Dignitas) that could, should a request be made.
There are quite a number of countries, including parts of USA, that allow assisted dying. Its definitely time in my opinion as a doctor, to join that list of countries.