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

The Dignitas organisation has said it is “fully supportive” of plans to legalise assisted dying in Scotland, as it accused UK politicians of “outsourcing this issue” to Switzerland where it has helped hundreds of UK residents end their lives. The ...

25 Sept 2022 at 11:26

Entertainment

Jonathan Dimbleby: Terminally ill people of sound mind should have right to die

Broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby has said terminally ill people of sound mind should have a right to an assisted death, after his brother died “in a terrible physical condition” with motor neurone disease. Scupltor Nicholas Dimbleby, who is also ...

21 May 2024 at 09:47

News

Dame Esther Rantzen: I would like champagne and caviar before Dignitas death

Dame Esther Rantzen has revealed she would like a final dinner of caviar and champagne before her death after she signed up for an assisted dying clinic. Since being diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2023, Dame Esther has campaigned for a ...

19 Feb 2024 at 12:12

Dame Esther Rantzen might not ‘live long enough’ to see assisted dying debated

Dame Esther Rantzen has said she might not “live long enough” to see assisted dying debated again in Parliament. In 2023 the 83-year-old journalist and broadcaster, who has stage four lung cancer, urged MPs to hold a debate when ...

17 Jan 2024 at 15:40

Campaigners for and against law change gather before assisted dying debate

Campaigners both for and against a change in the law on assisted dying are gathering outside Parliament as MPs prepare to take part in debate over a petition on the issue backed by Dame Esther Rantzen. The Childline founder and ...

29 Apr 2024 at 13:37

Prue Leith: Less pearl-clutching, more serious debate needed on dying law reform

Campaigners, bereaved relatives and famous faces are due to gather outside Parliament ahead of a debate on assisted dying amid a call for “less pearl-clutching” and more constructive conversation. Broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby,...

29 Apr 2024 at 07:36

Get off the fence on assisted dying issue, demands Dimbleby as MPs begin debate

Politicians must get off the fence on the issue of assisted dying, broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby has said as MPs began a lengthy debate on the law at Westminster. Campaigners both for and against legal reform gathered outside ...

29 Apr 2024 at 17:09

Assisted dying: Emotional debate hears country ‘not teeming with granny killers’

Changing the law to legalise assisted dying could see people killed because they are old, an at-times emotional parliamentary debate has heard, while others rejected a picture painted of a country “teeming with granny ...

29 Apr 2024 at 20:32

Dame Esther Rantzen calls for assisted dying free vote after joining Dignitas

Dame Esther Rantzen has said she is considering the option of assisted dying if her lung cancer treatment does not improve her condition. The 83-year-old Childline founder and broadcaster, who revealed in May that ...

19 Dec 2023 at 00:01

Woman who died at Dignitas leaves message for politicians urging law change

A cancer sufferer who felt she had no choice but to travel to Dignitas left a message for politicians in the wake of her death, pleading for a change to the UK’s current “cruel law” which criminalises assisted ...

21 Mar 2024 at 08:54

Starmer ‘committed’ to allowing vote on legalising assisted dying

Sir Keir Starmer has said he is “committed” to allowing a vote on legalising assisted dying in the next Parliament. The Labour leader made the pledge to campaigner Dame Esther Rantzen, whose revelation that ...

13 Mar 2024 at 10:23

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

Dame Prue Leith has called for “compassionate and gentle assisted death” to be legalised in the UK as figures showed the number of British members of Dignitas has soared by more than 80% in the past decade....

02 Mar 2023 at 13:25

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