During a phone call with Esther Rantzen, Keir Starmer confirmed his aim to legalise assisted dying during the sitting of the next parliament, when Labour are widely expected to win power with a large majority.
Is your loved one considering using an assisted dying clinic? Email [email protected]. For confidential support, call Samaritans on 116 123, visit samaritans.org or visitA widow says she 'felt like a criminal' when police visited her home after she accompanied her husband to a £20,000 assisted dying clinic in Switzerland where he listened to Frank Sinatra's My Way in his final moments.
Euthanasia is illegal in England and Wales under the 1961 Suicide Act and is punishable by up to 14 years' jail, even if the procedure is carried out abroad. In 2015 MPs including former prime minister David Cameron rejected a Bill to legalize assisted dying. 'They said they would not be pursuing an investigation and kept calling it assisted suicide. I kept telling them that it was not assisted suicide and it was assisted dying.
Dan's sister, Kate, 39, flew over to Switzerland with her other siblings Phillip, 48, and Matthew, 36, to be by his bedside. Dan pictured with his sister Kate the day before he died. She hit out at police for talking to his widow when she was by herself The office manager was diagnosed with a rare kidney cancer – Renal Medullary Carcinoma - in August 2022.
In a conversation with the terminally ill television presenter, Sir Keir gave a 'commitment' to ensure there is time for a vote in the next parliament if Labour is elected.
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