Terminally ill Scot Richard Selley sends final plea to Parliamentarians to legalise assisted dying, on the day he is due to die at Dignitas.
Our priority is to keep people safe while continuing to amplify the voices of terminally ill people and their loved ones who continue to be impacted by the UK’s broken law on assisted dying.
Terminally ill Scot Richard Selley sends final plea to Parliamentarians to legalise assisted dying, on the day he is due to die at Dignitas.
Richard Selley has written in The Times’s Thunderer column about reactions to his plan to end his life at Dignitas in Switzerland. Richard is in the final stages of motor neurone disease
Our Chief Executive responds to The Economist’s recent series of articles, ‘the case for and against assisted dying’
I have come to realise that there are strong theological reasons to support a change in the law to allow people control over their death
Anita has terminal bladder cancer.
— Dignity in Dying (@dignityindying) April 3, 2020
She doesn't want to die in pain, and she doesn't want to be sedated.
All she wants is the choice of an assisted death if her suffering becomes too much for her to bear. pic.twitter.com/8TSShQEVlS
“I’d love to have a party to say goodbye to my friends and family, so that they have those memories...and then just slip away.”
— Dignity in Dying (@dignityindying) April 1, 2020
Having this choice would take away Anita’s stress and fear.
How can anyone argue with that? pic.twitter.com/tQszkX1gqN
Thanks to the thousands of people who contacted the RCGP, they've now released the full results of their assisted dying survey.
— Dignity in Dying (@dignityindying) April 1, 2020
The results reveal opposition has dropped lower and support has risen higher than previously thought.https://t.co/ffoWX5Oms2