'We all deserve a good life ...and also a good death'

Disability campaigners back assisted dying Bill

- Stephen Beech

MPS are being urged to back assisted dying legislation by disability rights campaigners and academics - who say everyone deserves the chance of a good death.

Their intervention is a major boost for the Give Us Our Last Rights crusade run by the Daily Express, Dame Esther Rantzen and campaign group Dignity in Dying.

The campaigners, led by disability rights professor Tom Shakespeare, told MPs they stand "in solidarity with terminally ill people who want to have the option of an assisted death".