'We all deserve a good life ...and also a good death'
Daily Express|October 26, 2024
Disability campaigners back assisted dying Bill
Stephen Beech
'We all deserve a good life ...and also a good death'

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".

This story is from the October 26, 2024 edition of Daily Express.

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