Less than a week after the UK’s assisted suicide law passed its second reading, people are already musing about the many reasons the elderly and ill might opt for a lethal injection.

Terminally ill pensioners could end their lives earlier to spare loved ones?six-figure tax bills?under assisted dying legislation, experts have warned.” Under the current rules, pensions “are passed on free of income tax if the person dies before 75 years old.”

Rob White wrote: “If assisted dying becomes legal,?however, it could leave someone close to that age with an agonizing choice between prolonging their life or saving their family hundreds of thousands of pounds.

 

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