Richard Selley calls for legalisation of assisted dying, on day he is due to die at Dignitas
Terminally ill Scot Richard Selley sends final plea to Parliamentarians to legalise assisted dying, on the day he is due to die at Dignitas.
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The Times Scotland: Assisted dying can complement palliative care
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
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Listen to the true experts on death and dying – terminally ill people
Our Chief Executive responds to The Economist’s recent series of articles, ‘the case for and against assisted dying’
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A good assisted death can be a gift from God
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
@dignityindying
“Let’s have an informed debate over how we die.” - @MattHancock
— Dignity in Dying (@dignityindying) July 6, 2022
Monday's debate demonstrated that MPs are ready to break the deadlock between Parliament’s inaction and the huge public support for law change, with speakers in favour of reform outnumbering opponents by two to one. pic.twitter.com/8GYPIGUq3h
MPs have clearly been influenced not only by the growing evidence of the harm and injustice caused by the current law, but by their own constituents’ stories of suffering.
— Dignity in Dying (@dignityindying) July 6, 2022
MPs cannot ignore the matter of assisted dying any longer – nor do they want to.https://t.co/DG2PrtUOPr
. @lucyallan shared the tragic story of Sarah's husband Steve, who died of MND.
— Dignity in Dying (@dignityindying) July 6, 2022
"To watch the man I loved, the father to my three children, lose every single scrap of dignity for so long was completely heart-breaking."https://t.co/blCZNV0urZ