A taste of fire: Lawmakers in Chile are debating legalisation of euthanasia

The euthanasia bill will now be analysed article by article and probably will be voted on by the lower house next month

Chile is fast ditching its reputation as South America’s most conservative and Catholic country, with lawmakers now discussing whether to make it the second nation in the region to legalise euthanasia.
 
Less than a year after allowing abortion in some cases, a commission of the Chamber of Deputies approved a bill that would permit euthanasia for the terminally ill or in cases of extreme suffering, enabling doctors to prescribe lethal medication.
 
“In the past, this subject was a big taboo,” Vlado Mirosevic, a lawmaker from the Liberal Party who originally presented the bill to Congress, has said in