MK Ofer Shelach (Yesh Atid) submitted a law proposal that would legalize euthanasia (a.k.a. assisted suicide) for terminal patients.
The proposal passed a majority in the ministerial legislative committee, and will head to Knesset for voting.
The law will allow a doctor to prescribe a lethal does of anesthetics without being liable criminally for having given it to him.
Shelach defends his law proposal by saying that this will give the patient some sort of control over his own life even in his final days, in a way that also will relieve himself of his pain.
Obviously this bill has nothing to do with Judaism (Shelach himself said that passing it will bring Israel into the group of "enlightened" countries), and getting it passed will not be a simple thing.
While Woody Allen might not be making aliyah because of yesterdays law proposal, Dr. Death (Jack Kevorkian) might just be making initial contact right now with Nefesh bNefesh...
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