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
Surinamese people in Belgium is not known how Surisobe calculated this number. In October 2016, the embassy indicated that more precise figures are now being mapped out. Some of the Surinamese people in Belgium use the so-called "Belgian route": they come and live in Belgium with their Dutch partner to circumvent the stricter rules on family reunification in the Netherlands. Their stay in the country is therefore only temporary. There have been repeated incidents involving Surinamese people in Belgium in drug trafficking to the country. From 1990-1991, a group of Surinamese people with ties to the Surinamese army smuggled cocaine using their own airline,