Former Prime Minister Alfred Sant has declared himself in favour of the introduction of euthanasia.

Writing in his blog, the Labour MEP said that if value was to be given to life, he could not see how one could argue that nothing changed when life was degraded so much that it became a vegetative state, shorn of dignity.

“Anyone who wishes to continue to live in this state right up to the end should be given every means to do so. But, in the same way, those who decide otherwise should be given every opportunity to achieve their wish, Dr Sant said.

The biggest problem in the euthanasia debate was how to ensure that the individual’s wishes, whatever they were, were truly known, Dr Sant said.

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