New guidance has been issued to clarify the law on assisted suicide in England and Wales - but it offers no guarantees against prosecution.
Instead the director of public prosecutions has spelled out the range of factors that will be taken into account when deciding on cases.
These include whether there was a financial motive, and looking into how the decision to die was made.
The guidance does not represent a change in the law. Assisting suicide is illegal and carries a jail term of up to 14 years.
However, more than 100 Britons with terminal or incurable illnesses have gone to the Swiss centre Dignitas to die and none of the relatives and friends involved in the cases has been prosecuted.
Read more at BBC Health.
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