Members in Jersey voted for a service for terminally ill people with a life expectancy of six months, or 12 months if they have a neurodegenerative disease - known as route one - by a majority of 32 to 14.
Jersey has approved plans to introduce an assisted dying law in the coming years. Members of the States Assembly voted 32 to 14 in favour of introducing the law for people with fewer than six months to live, or 12 months for those with a neurodegenerative condition.
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