I don't know enough about the Bill to comment properly on that, but my views on assisted suicide go a bit like this... Doctors and nurses can stay the hell away from it. I wouldn't pay for the privilege either. But I would like to know that if I was in a position where I *was* dying, and until then I was going to gradually lose all dignity, all communication abilities, all control over my body, and depending on where exactly I was being treated I would be in a greater or lesser degree of pain while trapped in the prison of my wasting body and misfiring brain, just waiting to die... I would want to say to a loved one, please let me go before it gets to that stage. I would say it on tape, in front of witnesses, sign a document if I was capable, and then I would want them to be able to give me the means to overdose, and be allowed to "fail" to call an ambulance for me, without fear of prosecution. I recall reading in the Times a year or so ago about a woman whose husband was bed-bound with a degenerative illness and was waiting to die. On several occasions he attempted to overdose while she was out shopping, and he wrote her letters explaining why. Eventually she gave in and on returning from the shops, found he'd done it again, and instead of calling an ambulance she held him while the drugs killed him, made him tidy, and called the doctor. The time on her shopping receipt showed she hadn't administered the drugs, but she still got in legal trouble for not having called the ambulance.