Submitted on Tuesday 28th August 2012
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Allow the Right to Die with Dignity
We, the undersigned Petitioners supported Tony Nicklinson's wish to die with dignity by seeking help from a doctor to take the final steps to end Tony's life because he could not end his life without help due to the extent of his disabilities. Now that he is no longer fighting for this we continue to support anyone who finds themselves in a similar position to Tony.
We support a change in the law to the effect of allowing a Doctor to end the life of a person with a terminal illness or 'locked-in syndrome', without prosecution.
This has been challenge in the High Court, where it was decided that only Parliament could make the necessary change.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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