Woman Loses Legal Bid for Assisted Suicide
From Times Wire Reports
A terminally ill woman lost a legal battle to take her life by assisted suicide in a test case of whether Britain will permit euthanasia.
Wheelchair-bound Diane Pretty, a 43-year-old mother of two who has a muscle-wasting disease, has been fighting for her husband to help her die without being prosecuted.
But a panel of five judges in the House of Lords, the highest court in the land, backed a previous decision by London’s High Court that human rights were aimed at protecting the right to live with dignity--not to die with dignity.
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