Right to die!

The progress of a controversial bill in UK which would allow terminally ill people to be helped to die has been blocked by the House of Lords. Lord Joffe's bill would give doctors the right to prescribe drugs that a terminally ill patient in severe pain could use to end their own life. But peers backed an amendment to delay the bill by six months by 48 votes. Lord Joffe said the move was intended to end the debate, but pledged to reintroduce his bill at a later date. The government has said it will not block a further hearing of the bill. Peers had spent the day in a passionate debate on whether or not it was right to allow people who were terminally ill to be given drugs they could then use to end their life.