On the 3rd of February, the parliament of the Isle of Man (known as The House of Keys) rejected a euthanasia initiative by a margin of 17 to 5. The Isle of Man, like the Channel Islands, is a self-governing British Dependency with the British Monarch as its head of state.( NB: Jersey, Channel Islands, (the writer's ancestral home) debated euthanasia many years ago; nearby Guernsey rejected a bill in 2004.) Continue reading