Terminally ill Scot Richard Selley sends final plea to Parliamentarians to legalise assisted dying, on the day he is due to die at Dignitas.
A poll commissioned by Dignity in Dying Scotland, Friends at the End and Humanist Society Scotland shows that more than three quarters of Scots (76%) want the Scottish Parliament to debate assisted dying after the Parliamentary elections in May.
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.
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
Dying people are taking their own lives here and abroad.
— Dignity in Dying (@dignityindying) April 10, 2021
The current law offers them no protection or support. pic.twitter.com/likyXlRAWc
“I watched the man I loved become a hollow being.”
— Dignity in Dying (@dignityindying) April 9, 2021
Kirin’s husband Sandy died of cancer. His death was horrendous for him to experience, and for her to watch.
She doesn’t want anyone else to go through what Sandy went through.
We need change. pic.twitter.com/r9O4FIpDJl
“Whose life is it anyway?
— Dignity in Dying (@dignityindying) April 9, 2021
Dying like that, in so much indignity and pain is monstrous. It’s barbaric."
Well said @PrueLeith
Assisted dying must be a major election issue as we approach the May 6 polls in Scotland.https://t.co/QrBbram497