British lawmakers are set to hold a fresh debate on legalising assisted dying for terminally ill people in the new parliamentary session.
The move comes after a lawmaker, Lauren Edwards, said she would reintroduce draft legislation that stalled earlier this year.
Polls have shown around 80% of Britons back assisted dying, and the country had been on course to follow other nations in permitting it.
Under the proposed bill, mentally competent, terminally ill adults in England and Wales with six months or fewer to live would be given the right to end their lives with medical help, after approval from a panel of professionals.
Edwards said the proposed assisted dying law was 'the safest and most robust' in the world.
