Liberal Democrat MSP Liam McArthur lays out the legal safeguards, such as diagnosis by two separate doctors, ahead of presenting a new bill to allow assisted dying in Scotland to the Holyrood parliament. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 Legislation of this kind has been safely and successfully implemented around the world.
00:06 The diagnosis by two separate doctors wouldn't just be around the terminal illness and mental capacity.
00:11 They would need to understand the motivation, the rationale for why somebody was making that request,
00:16 to ensure that there hadn't been undue coercion or pressure applied.