Politicians in the Isle of Man voted overwhelmingly in mid-February to reject a Bill
calling for assisted suicide to be legalised.
Members of the House of Keys, the Manx Parliament, voted 17 to 5 to reject the call,
put
forward by
the Minister
for Home
Affairs, Juan Watterson. The Isle of Man is
one of the most recent places to oppose the
introduction of assisted suicide after the Welsh
Assembly voted against it in December.
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