UK to Clarify Assisted-Suicide Prosecutions

The assisted-suicide debate will come to a head in Britain this week, as the country's chief prosecutor clarifies the circumstances under which the state will prosecute families for helping terminally ill loved ones to die. Assisting a suicide will remain illegal, as it has been since 1961. But supporters of assisted suicide say they hope the new guidelines will make it easier for families to avoid prosecution when they help a parent, spouse or sibling to die and are clearly acting out of compassion and not malice or in search of financial gain. WSJ