Assisted suicide in the United Kingdom Medical Journal published an editorial arguing that medical organisations like the British Medical Association ought to drop their opposition to assisted dying and take a neutral stance so as to enable Parliament to debate the issue and not have what Raymond Tallis described as a "disproportionate influence on the decision". In 2014, Labour peer Lord Falconer introduced an Assisted Dying Bill into the House of Lords. The bill proposed that terminally ill patients with a life expectancy of less than six months be given the option of a medically assisted death, subject to legal safeguards. The bill reached committee stage
Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 points. Axel Hirsoux was the winner of Eurosong 2014 with the song "Mother". During the semi-final allocation draw on 20 January 2014 at the Copenhagen City Hall, Belgium was drawn to compete in the second half of the first semi-final on 6 May 2014. In the first semi-final, the producers of the show decided that Belgium would perform 10th, following Ukraine and preceding Moldova. Belgium failed to qualify from the first semi-final, placing 14th in a field of 16 songs and scoring 28 points. On stage, Axel Hirsoux was joined by one female dancer: Isabelle Beernaert. The Belgian performance featured