Judicial oversight could be added to a proposed Guernsey assisted dying law.
If the suggestion and the overall motion - both going before the States next month - are approved, a legal review would be considered as part of the changes in law needed.
Deputy Barry Brehaut brought the motion after "public feedback" on the issue, which was first raised in October but has gathered momentum following national media coverage.
He said "a number of people" felt the proposals would be strengthened by the "consideration of a judicial role in developing a regime of robust safeguards".
The other areas being considered are:
- The legal and professional obstacles required to be overcome in order to permit assisted dying in Guernsey
- Whether it shall be a requirement that the individual is terminally ill and, if so, the means by which that shall be defined and determined
- Whether it shall be a requirement that the individual shall physically administer the final act to themselves or whether it shall be permitted for others to assist
- Whether there should be a requirement for individuals to be locally resident
- What measures are required to protect the vulnerable and prevent abuse of the legislation
- The numbers and roles of doctors under any proposed assisted dying legislation, and whether they would be permitted to have any conscientious objection to an individual's request
- The age at which an individual shall have capacity for purposes of consenting under the assisted dying legislation