The bill in England and Wales regarding assisted dying for terminally ill adults will be rejected.

The bill in England and Wales, which allows adults in terminal stages to request assisted dying, will be rejected on Friday when parliamentary time runs out. Although it was adopted by the House of Commons in June last year, it has stalled in the House of Lords, where opponents have submitted over 1,200 amendments, a record number for a piece of legislation.

The bill's initiator, Charlie Falconer, expressed his discouragement that the law failed not on its merits, but due to procedural conflicts. The bill proposed that adults with less than six months to live could request assisted dying, with the approval of two doctors and a panel of experts. Meanwhile, lawmakers in Scotland have rejected similar legislation, and assisted suicide is already legal in several countries, including Canada and the Netherlands.