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Assisted dying

October 2026

  • man speaks into microphone at lectern, a woman standing behind him with canadian flags in the background

    Canada to indefinitely bar mental illness as sole reason for access to euthanasia

  • Patient on hospital bed

    Good palliative care and assisted dying can go hand in hand

  • Esther Rantzen smiles holding a "That's Life!" clipboard

    Smashing glass ceilings, Strictly and a courageous final sign-off: Esther Rantzen’s 10 best TV moments

  • Esther Rantzen lung cancer diagnosisUndated handout photo of Esther Rantzen who has said she is remaining "optimistic" after revealing she has been diagnosed with lung cancer. Issue date: Sunday January 29, 2023. PA Photo. The 82-year-old broadcaster, long-time activist and founder of charities Childline and The Silver Line, confirmed the news on Sunday. See PA story SHOWBIZ Rantzen . Photo credit should read: Esther Rantzen/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

    Esther Rantzen: one of the UK’s boldest, bravest ever campaigners – right to the very end

  • Esther Rantzen smiles outdoors in a straw hat and red scarf

    Esther Rantzen, TV presenter and Childline founder, dies aged 86

    Rantzen announced lung cancer diagnosis in 2023 and became a vocal assisted-dying campaigner
  • Kylie Ellina Truswell-Mobbs (centre) outside the supreme court in Brisbane after receiving a suspended sentence for assisting in the 2023 suicide of her husband, David Mobbs.

    Cheers as murder charge dismissed for Queensland woman who helped terminally ill husband die

  • Jane Turner

    double quotation markMPs, you told us clearly that end-of-life care in the UK is broken. So now we need you to fix it

    Jane Turner
  • Pro-assisted dying campaigners in Parliament Square react after MPs voted against the assisted dying bill on 11 September.

    On assisted dying, MPs grappled with a difficult bill

    Letters: Readers respond to the bill’s narrow defeat in the Commons earlier this month
  • Lauren Edwards speaking in the Commons

    Why did the assisted dying bill fail in the Commons?

  • A distressed pro-assisted dying campaigner embraces another person at Parliament Square in London

    ‘A tragic day’: campaigners react as MPs say no to legalising assisted dying

  • Crowds of people with different placards. Two wheelchair users holds placards reading: 'Assist us to live, not die' and 'Do not harm. Vote no'. Others hold 'Dignity in dying' placards dedicated to loved ones.

    MPs vote against legalising assisted dying in England and Wales

  • Campaigners for a change in the law on assisted dying react after the bill was defeated.

    MPs reject assisted dying bill after tense debate – as it happened

  • How did your MP vote on the reintroduced assisted dying bill?

  • MPs recount personal experiences as they debate assisted dying bill – video

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  • MPs urged not to take ‘extraordinary risk’ of forcing through assisted dying bill as vote looms

  • Esther Rantzen, unsmiling, looks into the distance

    Esther Rantzen now ‘too physically fragile’ to end her life in Switzerland

  • Polly Toynbee

    double quotation markMy plea to MPs: this is the final chance to save the assisted dying bill. Make your mark on history

    Polly Toynbee
  • Lauren Edwards

    double quotation markI am sending the assisted dying bill back to the Lords – and this time, peers must do the right thing

    Lauren Edwards
  • Protesters stand with placards arguing for and against assisted dying

    Low turnout threatens Commons vote on assisted dying, say MPs

  • Two women, both dressed in blue, standing together in front of greenery and a stone wall.

    As assisted dying bill returns to Commons, families recall loved ones’ battle to ‘go out on own terms’

    Elise Burns and Keith Williams appeared in campaign filmed by Rankin this year – both were denied their wishes, but their relatives are picking up the baton
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