ABSTRACT
Should Dianne Pretty have been granted her plea for assistance in dying? Should life support have been removed from patients like Anthony Bland and Karen Quinlan? Should Bernard Heginbotham have been convicted for the
mercy killing of his wife Ida? Which, if any, of the various methods of assisting in suicide that Michael Irwin allegedly offered ought to have been subject to censure? And should Dr Howard Martin, and indeed any other doctor, be able to rely on the doctrine of double effect?
