{"id":86897,"date":"2026-02-26T14:44:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/jersey-approves-assisted-dying-law-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T14:44:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:44:03","slug":"jersey-approves-assisted-dying-law-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/jersey-approves-assisted-dying-law-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Jersey approves assisted dying law | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A law to allow terminally ill adults the right to choose to end their own lives has been approved in <!--more--> Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>It marks the final legislative stage for the landmark proposals before they get Royal Assent in the UK &#8211; and once approved the first legal assisted deaths could happen as early as next summer.<\/p>\n<p>Those eligible are people with terminal illnesses causing unbearable suffering where they are expected to die within six months, or 12 months for those with neurodegenerative conditions such as Parkinson&#8217;s and motor neurone disease (MND).<\/p>\n<p>It means Jersey is now the second part of the British Isles where assisted dying has been fully approved &#8211; the Isle of Man was the first.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#Jersey #AssistedDying #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A law to allow terminally ill adults the right to choose to end their own lives has been approved in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}