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Assisted dying around the world: where and when it is allowed

In light of UK broadcaster Esther Rantzen’s revelation that she has considered assisted dying, we look at the policies of other countries

The Guardian - UK

Dame Esther Rantzen wants vote on assisted dying after revealing she has joined Dignitas

The broadcaster said she would call for a vote on assisted dying rights if she was the prime minister

The Independent UK

Dame Esther Rantzen considering assisted dying if lung cancer doesn't improve as she joins Dignitas

The 83-year-old Childline founder and broadcaster revealed in May she had stage four lung cancer

Evening Standard

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Esther Rantzen ‘considering assisted dying’ if cancer treatment fails

Broadcaster, 83, is waiting to hear result of ‘miracle drug’ and says she wants UK law to give the terminally ill the choice of how they die

The Guardian - UK

‘I don’t want to suffer’: the case for assisted dying in Scotland

Ani, who has motor neurone disease, and Suzie, who watched her husband die in agony, share their reasons for wanting change

The Guardian - UK

‘A death I don’t want’: one woman’s lost battle with UK’s assisted death laws

Rosemary Walker would like to die at home surrounded by her friends and family, but will have to travel to Switzerland instead

The Guardian - UK

At least 25 Scots have gone to Switzerland for assisted deaths

Dozens of Scots have travelled to Switzerland for an assisted death because current laws prevent the end-of-life option in Scotland, a campaigning…

The National (Scotland)

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Assisted dying – not for wimps, but right for us

Letters: Dr Graham Winyard and Dr Colin Brewer on parliament’s prolongation of intolerable suffering, Clare Dalton on her partner’s courageous choice to die, and Allan House on the case against assisted dying. Plus letters from Jacky Davis and Richard Condon

The Guardian - UK

The Britons who made their final journey to Dignitas clinic

Stories of people who travelled to the Swiss assisted-dying facility to end their lives

The Guardian - UK

Dignitas has helped 540 British people die, MPs told

Swiss organisation calls for assisted dying to be legalised in UK and made available alongside palliative care

The Guardian - UK

Number of Irish people choosing Switzerland for assisted dying increases 10-fold

Tom Curran, who is director of the Irish branch of Exit International, said he has been contacted by countless people seeking information on voluntary assisted death.

Irish Mirror

Law is a mess and needs reform, inquiry on assisted dying told

Conservative chairman Steve Brine opened the two-hour hearing on Tuesday by acknowledging it is an ‘incredibly sensitive’ subject.

The Independent UK

Dumbarton mum left paralysed after 'bending over to pick up pen' fell into a deep depression

Michelle Moffatt's mental health took a turn for the worse and she was prepared to go to an assisted dying facility in Switzerland after a horror accident left her unable to move

Glasgow Live

Scottish mum left paralysed after 'bending over to pick up pen' planned to end own life

Michelle Moffatt decided to travel to the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland after spiralling into a deep depression when a freak accident at work left her with two prolapsed discs in her back.

Edinburgh Live

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The Independent UK

Prue Leith urges ‘compassionate assisted death’ as UK Dignitas membership soars

The television presenter wonders who would want to spend their last days travelling to an ‘impersonal institution in a foreign country’.

The Independent UK

Assisted dying ban ‘failing families’ as British membership of Dignitas soars

Campaigning organisation Dignity in Dying said the numbers are ‘evidence that the ban on assisted dying is failing British families’.

Daily Mirror

Assisted dying volunteer says she'd 'do it again' after going with woman to end her life

Sue Lawford was probed by Dyffed Powys Police after going with Sharon Johnston - who had been paralysed in a fall - to Switzerland's Dignitas clinic where she ended her life

Daily Mirror

Radio DJ James Whale considered euthanasia after devastating terminal cancer diagnosis

DJ James Whale said had it not been for his wife Nadine he would have ended it all when he was diagnosed with cancer again, as this time it is sadly terminal

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The Guardian - UK

The time to die should be of our choosing

However difficult it is to legally protect assisted dying, we should still try

Daily Mirror

TalkTV host James Whale reveals he is dying of terminal cancer in heartbreaking speech

Talk TV and talkRADIO presenter James Whale announced he has only months to live as he has terminal cancer which has spread to his brain, spine, kidney and lungs

Daily Record

Mum arrested after helping stranger travel to carry out assisted suicide at Dignitas

Sue Lawford had only met Sharon Johnston once when she agreed to chaperon her to Dignitas, a nonprofit organisation in Switzerland that provides assisted-suicide to those with terminal or severe illness.

Daily Mirror

Ex-NHS worker's 6-month arrest ordeal after helping woman to end her own life

Sue Lawford assisted Sharon Johnston, a 60-year-old woman who became tetraplegic following a fall, to Dignitas, in Switzerland, on February 14 of this year

Wales Online

Widow who paid £10,000 for terminally ill husband to die in Switzerland calls on UK to change its euthanasia laws

'The shame about it is that had the UK law been in place then those four years would have been so much more pleasant because he would have known that when he couldn't cope with it no longer he could have just asked for the assistance required'

Daily Record

Dignitas 'fully supportive' of plans to legalise assisted suicide in Scotland

A total of 32 MSPs at Holyrood have pledged their support to permit assisted dying under certain circumstances in Scotland.

The Independent UK

UK has been ‘outsourcing’ assisted dying to Switzerland, Dignitas claims

The organisation spoke out as it submitted its response to a consultation on plans to change the law in Scotland.

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