Jersey is an island with an estimated population of 107,800 people near the coast of northwestern France. The British crown dependency is not part of the United Kingdom and has it own government and legal system.
If the island changes its laws, Jersey will be the first place in the British Isles to allow assisted suicide.
Very disappointing news from Jersey. But the fight is not over. Let’s redouble our prayers and our efforts to stand up for the dignity and value of human life, to support our doctors and to improve palliative care. pic.twitter.com/PYgFkhCOnO
— Bishop Philip Egan (@BishopEgan) November 25, 2021
The proposition would permit an adult island resident with a “voluntary, clear, settled, and informed wish to end his or her own life” to seek assisted suicide.
They must have been diagnosed with a terminal illness “expected to result in unbearable suffering that cannot be alleviated” and judged to have less than six months to live, or an incurable physical medical condition resulting in “unbearable suffering that cannot be alleviated.”
Egan, who is based in Portsmouth, southern England, but oversees the Catholic Church in the Channel Islands, said that if the proposition became law it would “change fundamentally the role of doctors and medical staff.”
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