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
“I'll move mountains to get you there.”
— Dignity in Dying (@dignityindying) July 9, 2020
Caroline was willing to risk prison time to accompany her mum to Dignitas.
Unfortunately they left it too late and her mum lived her last 4 weeks in horrendous pain.
She should have had the choice of a death on her own terms, at home. pic.twitter.com/ytoXTx40ZF
"Everyone imagines that this will never be them, never be their relatives, because if they get ill like that the doctors will “know what to do”. Or they will be able to go to Dignitas or something.
— Dignity in Dying (@dignityindying) July 9, 2020
In reality it isn’t like that."
- @Dannythefinkhttps://t.co/LuKEph3Xay
Zoe faced hours of police questioning after her terminally ill mum took her own life in 2018.
— Dignity in Dying (@dignityindying) July 9, 2020
"Is holding your mother's hand while she takes an overdose because she is dying from cancer supporting a suicide?"
Fix this broken law.#CompassionIsNotACrime pic.twitter.com/YXZYtsk2yR