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The Guardian - UK
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Charlotte Raven

Author Charlotte Raven: ‘At this point of no return, assisted dying feels like the best solution’

Charlotte Raven photographed at her home in London in September 2021.
‘I started getting symptoms in my 40s. They are not pretty’: Charlotte Raven at her home in London in September 2021. Photograph: Thomas Duffield/The Guardian

Molly Meacher last week told the Commons health and social care committee inquiry into assisted dying about the decay, vomit and pain that often constitutes the daily existence of the terminally ill.

The Guardian’s social affairs correspondent called her submission “shocking”. If Lady Meacher’s description really made him or anyone else on the committee feel this way, I have one piece of advice: go and spend a day in an NHS hospice.

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