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Legalised assisted dying should “gradually” be extended to dementia sufferers, the author Ian McEwan has said.McEwan was “shocked by the snow-drilling attempts” by those opposed to…

Supporters of assisted dying will seek to force through the bill using an archaic parliamentary procedure if it continues to be blocked by the Lords.The high…

Supporters of assisted dying are planning to use the Parliament Act to override the House of Lords if it continues to block the bill. But how…

The assisted dying bill is about to die, killed off by a small coterie of peers against the will of the House of Commons and voters…

MPs and peers who backed the assisted dying bill now believe it is “near impossible” for it to pass the House of Lords in time because…

Senior opponents of assisted dying legislation have called on peers not to hold up the progress of the bill through parliament, warning there was a serious…

Members of the House of Lords have proposed “totally unnecessary” and “very cruel” amendments to the assisted dying bill in an attempt to scupper it, the…

When visitors come to parliament, it seems incongruous to explain that, in our mother of parliaments, we have a second chamber – the House of Lords…

The opinion piece by Dave Sowry, a board member of My Death, My Decision, highlights the risks of treating autonomy as an ethical principle in isolation…

Ron Curtis, an English professor in Montreal, lived for 40 years with a degenerative spinal disease, in what he called the “black hole” of chronic pain.On…