MPs moved to tears in assisted dying debate before landmark vote

Meg Hillier, recounting her teenage daughter’s experience with acute pancreatitis, said: ‘I saw what good medicine can do that palliated that pain.’ Photograph: House of Commons/PA

The House of Commons heard impassioned pleas on both sides of the assisted dying debate as MPs prepared for a landmark vote on whether to legalise the practice in England and Wales.

MPs recounted their personal experiences of illness and death, and the appeals they have heard from their constituents on assisted dying.