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A time to live, a time to die?
ANSELM ELDERGILL details the problems associated with the Assisted Dying Bill which has its second reading on Friday
LETHAL OBJECTION: Campaigners protest outside Parliament in Westminster against assisted dying, earlier this year
ANDY McDONALD MP says Labour must show it is capable of delivering real improvements in people’s lives — bold action is required
ANGUS REID and ANDREW JOHNSTONE report on an initiative that we must take this summer
ALLISON FEWTRELL on what Plaid Cymru's historic election victory means for the communities being failed by Wales’s housing crisis, and four things the new government can do right now
France Insoumise MP JEROME LEGAVRE speaks to Christophe Domec on building the Europe-wide peace movement that came together in the International Conference Against War last weekend
At last weekend’s International Conference Against War, LINDA PENTZ GUNTER talks to the Palestinian physician and politician about the struggles ahead to achieve a truly free Palestine
TO EVERY thing there is a season. A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to kill, and a time to heal. So says the Old Testament.
The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill has its second reading in Parliament on Friday. It aims to give many adults with less than six months to live the right to end their life with medical assistance at a time of their choosing.
The proposed framework is relatively simple but controversial, and in some respects flawed.
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GEOFF BOTTOMS, who has worked in a palliative care hospice for 11 years, argues the postcode lottery for proper end-of-life care must be ended to give the terminally ill choice and agency