ABSTRACT
Although the message is sometimes lost in translation, 1 English law proclaims death on demand to be unlawful. 2 Various parliamentarians have pled the merits of a different message, that the unlawful should be rendered lawful. 3 Their efforts have (yet?) to prove successful. Equally unsuccessful (again, so far) have been numerous attempts to petition the courts to lift the ban. 4 Despite the Houses’ ongoing resistance, the courts continue to insist that only Parliament can pull apart the prevailing prohibition. 5 So constrained, the judiciary is left to restate the basic message; assisted dying is not lawful.
