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Assisted dying advocate and author Wendy Mitchell dies aged 68

Mitchell, who had dementia, announces her death in letter published posthumously on her blog

The Guardian - UK

Assisted dying petition inspired by Esther Rantzen signed by more than 10,000

The broadcaster previously disclosed that she has signed up for Swiss-based Dignitas

Evening Standard

Cabinet minister Mel Stride wants MPs to look again at legalising assisted dying

Support for fresh look follows Esther Rantzen’s call for new vote, as he reveals joining Dignitas

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Bravo, Esther Rantzen, it’s only the wimps in Westminster who are too afraid to talk about assisted dying

The campaigner is right to call for reform. It’s political cowardice, not public opinion, that stands in the way, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

MPs moving towards majority backing for assisted dying, ex-minister claims

Kit Malthouse says sentiment has moved significantly since last Commons vote on issue in 2015

The Guardian - UK

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

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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

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)

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

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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

Irish Mirror

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.

The Independent UK

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.

Glasgow Live

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

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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.

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

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

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