Elderly and Depressed Could Be Pressured Into Assisted Suicide, Warn MPs and Campaigners

Campaigners have warned that access to legalised assisted suicide could result in the depressed and the elderly volunteering to be euthanised. A general debate in Westminster Hall on Monday saw MPs from across the political spectrum speak in favour of legalising medically-assisted suicide on grounds that it gives people with terminal conditions a dignified death and spares families from watching loved ones suffer. However, critics warned that the legal constraints of who would be eligible for assisted suicide would not remain limited to those with terminal conditions, with MPs listing cases overseas where young people with PTSD and depression have accessed state-sponsored euthanasia....