Browsing: dying

Labour planned while in opposition how to introduce assisted dying via a private member’s bill, suggesting that would still allow “heavy influence” for the government in…

Time is running out to right the wrongs of England and Wales’s assisted dying legislation. The House of Lords is holding committee sittings, which involve line-by-line…

Dr Lucy Thomas raises some interesting points in her defence of the House of Lords’ behaviour on assisted dying (Letters, 26 November). But it is a…

The head of the Swiss right-to-die organisation Dignitas has ended his life through an assisted death, the group has said.Ludwig Minelli, who founded the group in…

Simon Jenkins is right that the Lords should not kill legislation by procedural manoeuvre (Unelected Lords are blocking assisted dying: that’s a democratic outrage) . But…

Rachel Clarke is right to highlight the pressures on palliative care, but wrong to suggest that assisted dying debates have sidelined these concerns (As a palliative…

Peers will mount a new offensive to halt the assisted dying bill on Friday, tabling almost 1,000 new amendments to the legislation in an effort to…

My long-term partner of 30 years, Megan Davies, died from lung cancer on 31 October.While I agree that there is much to be done to improve…

A woman who was under police investigation for accompanying her husband to an assisted dying clinic in Switzerland said she wished her case had gone to…

A woman who accompanied her husband to an assisted dying clinic in Switzerland has been told she will not face charges.Louise Shackleton, 59, handed herself in…