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Assisted dying

May 2024

  • CS Lewis

    Brief letters
    CS Lewis should have tried self-reflection

  • Melanie Reid with Liz Carr in Better Off Dead?

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Better Off Dead?; Bridgerton; The Gathering; The Big Cigar – review

  • Hospice patient Lynne Cottignies

    ‘Once you take choice away, there’s nothing left’: assisted dying edges closer in Jersey, but can they protect against a ‘duty to die’?

  • People wearing bright orange scarves hold placards above their heads

    How a doctor, sailor and lecturer changed Europe’s assisted dying debate

  • Dutch woman, 29, granted euthanasia approval on grounds of mental suffering

  • When doctors withhold futile treatments, that isn’t ‘assisted dying’

  • TV review
    Better Off Dead? review – Liz Carr’s blistering film may well change your mind about assisted dying

  • ‘I’m fighting for the right to live’: Liz Carr on acting, friendship and her campaign against assisted dying

  • Woman having assisted death calls for UK law change: ‘The closer it gets, the more peaceful I feel’

  • A form of assisted dying already happens in hospitals

  • Sometimes our take on human nature trumps our political allegiances. Good

    Sonia Sodha
  • How old is too old? I’m 77 and I don’t know yet. But I will when I get there

    Polly Toynbee
  • Brief letters
    Ben Bradshaw is still wrong on Iraq and the Guardian

  • I can truly see the case for assisted dying. But the horrific state of the NHS makes me question if it is the best idea

    Rachel Clarke

April 2024

  • Jonathan Dimbleby

    Jonathan Dimbleby urges MPs to ‘get off the fence’ on assisted dying

    Public opinion ‘overwhelmingly in favour of change’, says broadcaster, as MPs debate law in Commons
  • Frank Field resigns Labour whip<br>Frank Field MP in Westminster, London, after resigning from the Labour party over the anti-Semitism crisis. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday August 30, 2018. Field, who has represented Birkenhead from almost 40 years, revealed in a letter to party chief whip Nick Brown that he could no longer serve the party as the leadership was overseeing the "erosion of our core values". See PA story POLITICS Field. Photo credit should read: Victoria Jones/PA Wire

    Lord Field of Birkenhead obituary

    MP for Birkenhead for 40 years and former Labour minister who was asked to ‘think the unthinkable’ about welfare reform
    • People with terminal illnesses advocate for physician-assisted death: ‘It’s my way of having control’

    • When the right to die becomes the duty to die, who will step in to save those most at risk?

      Sonia Sodha
    • I understand why people are wary about assisted dying, but it gave my mother a dignified end

      Renate van der Zee

March 2024

  • A nurse holding an elderly person's hands

    Assisted dying: what are the laws in UK and what changes are proposed?

    Scotland could become first part of UK to offer terminally ill adults assistance to end their lives if Holyrood approves bill
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