2️⃣ *British legislators could take a major step towards legalizing euthanasia* when they hold a knife-edge vote on whether to allow assisted dying for terminally ill people. 🇬🇧 MPs will either progress the legislation to the House of Lords upper chamber for further scrutiny or end it entirely following *several hours of impassioned debate*. 🪧 *Protesters both for and against the contentious bill are expected to gather outside parliament* as the so-called third reading -- the MPs' last chance to debate its contents -- takes place inside. 🪦The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill would allow assisted suicide in England and Wales for *adults with an incurable illness* who have a life expectancy of fewer than six months. 🇬🇧 They would have to be able to administer themselves the life-ending substance, and any *patient's wish to die would have to be signed off by two doctors* and a panel of experts.