Can Westminster Learn From Jersey’s Assisted Dying Law?
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The project to legalize assisted suicide, promised at the final vote of the National Assembly on 15 July, raises the problem. It is that it violates two fundamental principles of the psychic life of all and, consequently, the entire French society. Suicide: a demand that does not say its true natureThe first: the suicidal intention is never a demand to die. Teenagers teach us. The first cause of lethality at their age, the attempt to commit suic…
Can Westminster learn from Jersey’s Assisted Dying Law?
Graham Box and Kenneth Chambaere, authors of 'Assisted Dying', argue that while reintroducing the previous assisted dying bill may be politically practical, Westminster should instead learn from Jersey’s more consultative and flexible model to create safer, more widely supported legislation.
While almost 200,000 suicide attempts are recorded each year in France and mental health was established as a major national cause in 2025, and then extended in 2026, the debate on the proposed law on the right to assistance in dying raises a fundamental question: how could the law both organize suicide prevention and, at the same time, organize assisted suicide? This tension reveals an apparent contradiction at the heart of the legal protection…
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