A proposed bill allowing terminally ill adults in England and Wales to choose assisted dying failed on Friday because parliamentary time ran out. The legislation had passed the House of Commons but stalled in the House of Lords.

A proposed bill to allow terminally ill adults in England and Wales to choose to end their lives failed on Friday as parliamentary time ran out, nearly a year since elected members of parliaments gave their backing. Though the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill was passed by the House of Commons last June, the UK’s revising chamber, the House of Lords, effectively talked it out since then. Proponents of what has been termed “assisted dying” – sometimes referred to as “assisted suicide” –.....