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You may have seen that Dignity in Dying are doing a very big push nationwide to get people to email their candidates to ask them whether would support moves in the next Parliament to introduce [...]

Campaigners are this Sunday celebrating the first anniversary of the defeat of the Marris Assisted Suicide Bill on 11th September 2015. On that day the UK House of Commons had its first vote on [...]

Click here to sign the petition showing your support for the BMA’s continued opposition to assisted suicide. At its annual representative meeting next week, the BMA will consider two [...]

Listen to No To Assisted Suicide spokesperson, Kevin Yuill, discuss assisted suicide ahead of the British Medical Association’s debate on that subject at its Conference next week. He rightly [...]

A cross-party group of 60 MPs have urged parliament — and the government — to increase funding for palliative care in the light of the vote on assisted suicide last week This letter [...]

The debate on the Assisted Dying Bill showed parliament at its finest. As I attempted to get into the public gallery at the House of Commons last Friday afternoon, I heard a huge cheer from the [...]

Out of 650 MPs, a total of 448 took part in the free vote on assisted dying. Of these 448, 330 opposed the Bill and 118 supported the Bill. It was a free vote, which meant they could support [...]

As has been said many times since Friday’s second reading debate on the Assisted Dying (No 2) Bill, we saw Parliament at its finest then. I have not sat through a debate in which so many [...]

‘I want to die. Please help me.’ It was 2 a.m. in the good old days when patients had 24-hour cover by their own GPs. I knew Martin well. His bladder cancer had been diagnosed the year before, [...]

MPs decisively threw out proposals to give people the right to be helped to die by a two-to-one majority yesterday after a historic debate in a packed House of Commons. In the first Commons [...]