*11.4.2 South Africa*

The South African Law Commission in 1997 produced a draft law that would have legalized both euthanasia and PAS, but the report was ignored, and a law never passed. In 2015 a terminally ill lawyer asked that his physician be allowed to assist with his suicide, but the court's supportive ruling was not read until the lawyer had already died, leaving the scope of the ruling unclear.
