I have added the following text to my page "Approaching Death: Cremations, Disposal of Bodies and Suicide" by Vexen Crabtree (2007):

Assisted suicide is illegal in most countries that have laws on suicide. In the UK suicide was decriminalised in the Suicide Act of 1961. The same law made it illegal to help another person do this legal act, and is punishable by up to 14 years in jail. But this isn't the whole story. Eight hundred Britons have signed up with Dignitas, and one hundred have voluntarily died there, aided to their end by physicians. None of the Brits who travelled with them, or the relatives who helped them beforehand, have had a prosecution brought against them. A principal book on UK criminal law states that "if it is determined that the terminally ill person was competent, her local authority had no power to seek to maintain an injunction to restrain her spouse from complying with the wife's wishes to take her to Switzerland" to commit suicide. This creates, in reality, a conflicting and impractical state of law. Lord Falconer, once the Lord Chancellor in the UK, continues:

“Though prosecuting those going with them has in no case been deemed in the public interest, many fellow travellers have been interviewed by police and waited for months to learn that no charges would be brought. It is "time now for the law to catch up with reality," he says. [... and proposes that] if someone declares before an independent witness his intention of committing suicide, and two doctors certify that he is terminally ill, a person accompanying him abroad for that purpose should not face prosecution.”

The Economist (2009)

Lord Falconer's sensible declaration seems hard to fault, except for the fact that many of those who suffer from excruciatingly horrible and debilitating diseases that are not actually terminal illnesses. The law should allow the assisted suicide of those certified as per Lord Falconer's idea, with the addition of those certified to be unable to counter a disease that dominates every area of their life. Eighty percent of Britons support changing the law.

So... to what extent should free will and freedom be allowed, and where are the lines?

Found a nice little quote in a philosophy book on Time and Space:

“With unrelenting speed, life's scenes fly by, and the grave yawns before us.”

"Travels in Four Dimensions: The Enigmas of Space and Time" by Prof. Le Poidevin, p123.

I have added it to my page: "Satan Represents Death" by Vexen Crabtree (2003)

“Ghost, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear.

There is one insuperable obstacle to a belief in ghosts. A ghost never comes back naked: he appears either in a winding-sheet or 'in his habit as he lived.' To believe in him, then, is to believe that not only have the dead the power to make themselves visible after there is nothing left of them, but that the same power inheres in textile fabrics. Supposing the products of the loom to have this ability, what object would they have in exercising it? And why does not the apparition of a suit of clothes something walk abroad without a ghost in it? These be riddles of significance.”

The Devil's Dictionary

Added to "Physical Interaction between Body and Soul" by Vexen Crabtree (1998).