Lord Falconer has finally announced that his long awaited assisted suicide bill will be tabled in the House of Lords on Wednesday 15 May.
A 59-year-old Irish woman today lost her Supreme Court challenge to the ban on assisted suicide.
We have previously highlighted the rapid escalation of euthanasia and assisted suicide cases in the Netherlands, Oregon and Switzerland in recent years but Belgium is eclipsing all of these countries in the race to become the 'world leader'.