Every person has the right to die with dignity. Where a person is suffering from a terminal illness that is causing unbearable suffering and from which there is no reasonable prospect of recovery, and where that person is of sound mind and has expressed a clear, consistent, informed, and uncoerced wish to end their life, the state shall not prevent them from doing so and shall ensure that assistance in dying is available to them.
The person must be assessed as suffering from a terminal condition by no fewer than two independent practitioners who agree that the condition is irreversible and that death is the reasonably foreseeable outcome. The person must have expressed their wish to die on no fewer than three separate occasions over a minimum period established by law. The person must be assessed as mentally competent and free from coercion by an independent assessor with no connection to their care team or family. The highest quality palliative and natural care must have been offered and either declined or found insufficient.
Assistance in dying shall never be offered, suggested, encouraged, or promoted as a solution to poverty, disability, mental illness, social isolation, or any condition other than terminal physical illness causing unbearable suffering. It is never a cost-saving measure and never a convenience. No practitioner shall be compelled to participate contrary to their conscience, provided the person is promptly referred to a willing practitioner without obstruction or delay