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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Will Durrant

Dying people should have ‘care and compassion like my mother’ – Arlene Foster

Peers “should be asking” how to help dying people “live better”, Arlene Foster has said as she described the “care and compassion” which her mother received at the end of her life.

The former Northern Ireland first minister warned that rolling out assisted dying could give “legitimacy” to terminally ill patients’ thoughts, if they think they “will be better off to be dead”.

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