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Closed Legalise Assisted Dying for the terminally-ill with less than 6 months to live.

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Sir Kier Starmer (Former Director of Public Prosecutions) believes that with the right safeguards in place, people should be able to receive help taking their lives by someone acting out of compassion. The law should be changed to allow assisted dying.

From the moment of mum’s diagnosis, she fought bravely, but thereafter her health deteriorated rapidly with rapid metastasis (spread of cancer to other parts of the body) raising more complications, more pain, more medication, less independence, less quality of life and loss of dignity. On many occasions my mum asked me to take her to Dignitas and if I had foreseen the immense suffering that she went through in the last six months of her life I definitely would have followed her wishes.

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    House of Commons debates assisted dying bill

    You recently signed a petition on the UK Government and Parliament Petitions website to: Legalise Assisted Dying for the terminally-ill with less than 6 months to live:
    https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/107019

    At 9.30am today (Friday 11 September), the House of Commons will debate the assisted dying bill. It's the second reading, so the debate will be on the general principals of the bill.

    The summary of the bill is: "A Bill to enable competent adults who are terminally ill to choose to be provided with medically supervised assistance to end their own life; and for connected purposes."

    The bill is not a government bill, but a private member’s (a backbencher’s) bill, introduced by Rob Marris MP.

    After the debate, MPs will vote to decide if it will go through to the next stage in Parliament.

    You can find out more and follow the progress of the bill, including the full text of the bill on this page:
    http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2015-16/assisteddyingno2.html

    You can watch the debate on Parliament TV: http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Commons

    You can find out how to attend the debate: http://www.parliament.uk/visiting/visiting-and-tours/watch-committees-and-debates/debates/

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