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Should suicide help be legalised?

A woman with multiple sclerosis is urging the House of Lords to clarify the law on assisted suicide. Former Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer and George Pitcher, of the Telegraph, discuss if the threat of prosecution for those who help somebody kill themselves overseas should be lifted.

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