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Widow who watched husband with MND take own life in Swiss clinic backs assisted dying bill after being diagnosed with same disease
Widow who watched husband with MND take own life in Swiss clinic backs assisted dying bill after being diagnosed with same disease

Barbara Shooter, 69, was told she has incurable MND less than three years after her railway executive husband, Adrian, 74, died of the disease in December 2022. Read more

Mail Online - Dec 28
Senior opponents of assisted dying bill urge Lords not to deliberately block it
Senior opponents of assisted dying bill urge Lords not to deliberately block it

Letter says there is danger of Lords losing legitimacy as more than 1,000 amendments tabled, delaying any voteSenior 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 danger of the Lords losing demo... Read more

The Guardian - Dec 11
It is not too late to put the brakes on assisted dying, and focus on what is really needed | Gordon Brown
It is not too late to put the brakes on assisted dying, and focus on what is really needed | Gordon Brown

Palliative care is deeply underfunded and unequal. Assisted dying cannot go ahead until politicians right that wrongTime 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 examinations ... Read more

Theguardiantheguardian - Dec 02
Assisted Dying Pioneer and Dignitas Founder Dies by Assisted Suicide
Assisted Dying Pioneer and Dignitas Founder Dies by Assisted Suicide

The Swiss lawyer who turned assisted death into a political and moral battleground has ended his own life at one of his clinics. Read more

Newsweek - Dec 01
BREAKING: Dignitas founder Ludwig Minelli ends own life at own assisted dying clinic
BREAKING: Dignitas founder Ludwig Minelli ends own life at own assisted dying clinic

Ludwig Minelli set up the first Dignitas clinic in 1998 to help the terminally and chronically ill to die on their own terms Read more

Mirror - Nov 30
Peers hell-bent on killing the assisted dying Bill should be ashamed
Peers hell-bent on killing the assisted dying Bill should be ashamed

A determined clique has tabled hundreds of amendments in an underhand attempt to thwart democracy. Read more

Express - Nov 29
House of Lords' undemocratic attempt to scupper assisted dying Bill will cause constitutional crisis
House of Lords' undemocratic attempt to scupper assisted dying Bill will cause constitutional crisis

The 1,000 proposed amendments to the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill in the House of Lords are designed to ensure it runs out of time in parliament Read more

The Scotsman - Nov 24
Peers will mount fresh offensive to halt assisted dying bill
Peers will mount fresh offensive to halt assisted dying bill

More than half of the 942 amendments have been tabled by seven lords in move which could filibuster legislationPeers 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 run down the clock.More than half of th... Read more

The Guardian - Nov 13
'I've helped 29 people die... but I'm NOT a murderer': UK's 'travel agent for death' hits back and defends his 'work' for assisted dying clinic after sister shops him to police
'I've helped 29 people die... but I'm NOT a murderer': UK's 'travel agent for death' hits back and defends his 'work' for assisted dying clinic after sister shops him to police

On the wall in the Davison home in rural Dorset is a huge map of the world. Professor Sean Davison and his wife Raine are much travelled, as are their three children, aged 15, 14 and 11. Read more

Mail Online - Sep 21
Assisted dying poses 'substantial task' for UK healthcare system, warns thinktank
Assisted dying poses 'substantial task' for UK healthcare system, warns thinktank

Assisted dying would place added pressure on NHS, hospice and social care capacity, creating a "substantial task" for the healthcare system, especially as demand rises, according to a health thinktank. Read more

Skynew - Aug 28