Euthanasia group to launch assisted suicide info hotline

by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent
Thu May 12, 2011

(LifeSiteNews.com) – A euthanasia advocacy group has announced it will open a suicide hotline – but one unlike any other suicide hotline that currently exists, which typically offer a sympathetic ear and seek to convince those brought to the brink of despair not to take their own lives.

Compassion in Dying, an offshoot of the campaign group Dignity in Dying, said that it will instead be setting up the telephone line that will dispense information for those wishing to commit suicide on their legal rights. It will be “dedicated to supporting patients, loved ones and carers through the dying process, promoting greater patient choice and control where possible,” the group said. the rest