AID IN DYING ALIVE: Dozens of advocates who’ve spent years in the Capitol’s hallways pushing for terminally ill New Yorkers to legally end their own lives with a physician’s aid are finally seeing hope.

The Scottish parliament have voted in favour of the assisted dying bill in its first stage.

Scotland’s parliament has passed the first stage of a bill that would allow the terminally ill to end their own lives, taking the country a step closer to joining others that have passed similar legislation on assisted dying.