Rejected petition Legalise assisted suicide

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Give terminally ill people the right to chose medical intervention to help end their life in their own country. This petition has been created by the wife and daughter of Reg Crew, who was one of the first British people to travel to the dignitas clinic in Switzerland to end his own life.

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Date submitted 4 January 2012
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