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Assisted dying: What is the practice, and could it become legal in the UK?

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A bill on assisted dying is to return to parliament for the first time in six years, when attempts to legalise it in the UK failed.

Since then, there has been a change in the stance of the British Medical Association, from opposed, to neutral.What is assisted dying, and could it become legal in the UK?

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