The Washington D.C. city council has approved a Bill to legalise assisted suicide. Passed in an 11 to two vote, the measure, which is modelled on the 1997 assisted suicide legislation in the state of Oregon allows for those over 18 to access lethal drugs if two doctors agree the patient is in the final stages of a terminal illness. Responding to news of the vote, Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, said that despite promises of safeguards with the Bill, “when you look at the reality, none of that is true. “If you have a medical condition you don’t have to speak to a specialist, you don’t have to, in any way, receive an opportunity to get the information that might change your mind” about assisted suicide.