Assisted dying bill is safer than any other in the world | Letters

Dr Jacky Davis and Stephen Sedley respond to letters that supported the Lords’ scrutiny of the billDr Lucy Thomas raises some interesting points in her defence of the House of Lords’ behaviour on assisted dying (Letters, 26 November). But it is a stretch to suggest that the 1,000 amendments that peers have tabled to the bill represent effective independent scrutiny.What possible justification can there be for requiring every dying person – including a 90-year-old in their