Assisted suicide plan 'unnecessary'

Apr 20 2009

Proposals to legalise assisted suicide have been branded "dangerous and unnecessary" by a medical ethics body.

Independent MSP Margo MacDonald's Bill would change the way death and disability are viewed by society, according to the Scottish Council on Human Bioethics.

"Assisted dying is unnecessary because physical suffering can be adequately alleviated in all but the most rare cases," the council said in a statement.