Anorexia sufferers may use assisted dying bill to end their lives
Scotland's proposed right-to-die law risks allowing people with anorexia to end their lives even though they may eventually recover, experts have said.
Chelsea Roff is the founder of the charity Eat Breathe Thrive that works to help people with eating problems.
She said the legislation as it stood could be misused by people in deep despair and unable to access vital treatment on the struggling NHS.
Roff and her colleague, Professor Catherine Cooke-Cottone, studied assisted dying around the world and found at that least 60 people with eating disorders had been allowed to end their lives. That number is expected to be far higher due to inadequacies in record-keeping.
Scotland's lawmakers will vote on Liam McArthur's private member's bill on assisted dying for terminally-ill patients
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