Mexico City is set to make assisted suicide a constitutional right. On January 31, the representatives of the Mexican capital’s Constituent Assembly will present the city’s new Constitution. Article 11 of that document states: “The right of determination and free will, should enable all people to freely and fully exercise their capabilities to live with dignity. The right to a dignified life implicitly contains the right to a dignified death.” The right will be confined to Mexico City as the capital independently elects its own legislative assembly, as all other states in the country do. Reacting to the move on assisted suicide, the Archdiocese of Mexico said: “If science determines that a person is alive but fails to provide the necessary help to keep said person alive, the crime of murder is in essence committed under the guise of ‘letting a person die’.” The archdiocese added that “Mexico City is converting a crime into a law.” The new law will come into effect on January 1, 2018.