Is the assisted-dying bill dead? Scouring the British headlines over the past week, you could be forgiven for thinking as much. The latest source of unrest came on March 25th when a parliamentary committee finished its line-by-line scrutiny of draft legislation that could give certain adults in England and Wales the right to die. During the nine-week process, MPs adopted several consequential amendments, including scrapping an oversight role for a high-court judge and extending the implementation period from two years to four. The latter was enough for the Telegraph, a right-wing newspaper, to declare that it had been dealt a “mortal blow”. The Sunday Times pronounced it “doomed”.