So that's clear then? - Not!!

The DPP's "clarification" of the assisted suicide law just highlights what a dog's breakfast that law is. We seem to have become confused about the difference between assisting someone to commit suicide - i.e. handing them a lethal dose to drink for instance, and merely assisting them to travel to a particular place. The latter cannot rationally be considered to be assisting them to commit suicide even if we know that is their purpose in travelling to that place. And then we have this idea that you might be deemed to have fallen foul of the law if you stand to benefit financially from the person's suicide. Given that the people most likely to accompany a would-be suicide on their journey will be their closest relatives, and that they are the people most likely to named beneficiaries under that person's will, this seems to mean that they will always be suspect. Not very helpful. I've no doubt that the DPP has done his best, but Parliament created this mess, and it's about time that Parliament stopped ducking the issue and sorted it out.