Cape Town advocate Robin Stransham-Ford has been granted a court order to get assisted suicide.
The Pretoria High Court on Tuesday heard an urgent application for Stransham-Ford to be allowed to ask a doctor to help him die.
Stransham-Ford‚ who has terminal cancer‚ told the court that he wanted to die when he chooses to‚ with his family around him.
Pretoria High Court Judge Hans Fabricus ruled that Stransham-Ford was mentally competent and freely and voluntarily wanted assisted suicide.
The judge‚ in his groundbreaking judgment‚ found that a doctor who assisted in the euthanasia would not have his or her licence to practise removed by the Health Professions Council of South Africa.
Court rules in favour of Cape Town advocate's assisted suicide
Cape Town advocate Robin Stransham-Ford has been granted a court order to get assisted suicide.
The Pretoria High Court on Tuesday heard an urgent application for Stransham-Ford to be allowed to ask a doctor to help him die.
Stransham-Ford‚ who has terminal cancer‚ told the court that he wanted to die when he chooses to‚ with his family around him.
Pretoria High Court Judge Hans Fabricus ruled that Stransham-Ford was mentally competent and freely and voluntarily wanted assisted suicide.
The judge‚ in his groundbreaking judgment‚ found that a doctor who assisted in the euthanasia would not have his or her licence to practise removed by the Health Professions Council of South Africa.