The British Medical Association believes that assisted dying goes against the central clinical ethos that medicine is to improve patients' quality of life – and not to shorten it.
Doctors voted in 2006 against any legal change on physician-assisted dying or voluntary euthanasia following objections to the organisation's earlier neutral stance on the subject.
The BMA maintains that ongoing improvements in palliative care allow those suffering from terminal disease and other incurable conditions to die with dignity.
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