Editing Assisted suicide (section)

===South Africa===
South Africa is struggling with the debate over legalizing voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. Owing to the underdeveloped health care system that pervades the majority of the country, Willem Landman, "a member of the South African Law Commission, at a symposium on euthanasia at the World Congress of Family Doctors" stated that many South African doctors would be willing to perform acts of voluntary euthanasia when it became legalized in the country.<ref name="McDougall 2008 80">{{harvnb|McDougall|Gorman|2008|p=80}}</ref> He feels that because of the lack of doctors in the country, "[legalizing] euthanasia in South Africa would be premature and difficult to put into practice ...".<ref name="McDougall 2008 80" />

On 30 April 2015, the High Court in [[Pretoria]] granted Advocate Robin Stransham-Ford an order that would allow a doctor to assist him in taking his own life without the threat of prosecution. On 6 December 2016, the Supreme Court of Appeal overturned the High Court ruling.<ref name="News24">{{cite web |url=http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/sca-overturns-right-to-die-ruling-20161206 |title=SCA overturns right-to-die ruling |publisher=News24 |date=6 December 2015 |access-date=6 December 2015 |archive-date=16 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171216015836/https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/sca-overturns-right-to-die-ruling-20161206 |url-status=live }}</ref>