I dont know if this can be classified as 'Good News', but I am putting it here because some deep ethical, moral and legal issues are involved. Though its a news of death, its a voluntary death.
80 years old Peter Duff and his 70 years old wife Penny were suffering from terminal cancer. They are believed to have ended their lives together at a clinic in Switzerland. Voluntary euthanasia is not legal in Britain but is legal is Switzerland. They are believed to have been helped to end their lives with overdose of barbiturates. In UK assisting suicide is punishable but Britain's Chief Justice had signaled that anyone 'helping; a terminally ill person to organise an assisted suicide abroad would not be prosecuted in the country.
Readers' comments on this news are most welcome
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