Unless parliament acts to address these and other issues, the bill leaves sick and disabled people open to being coerced into early graves. As it stands, it simply must not pass.

Former Prime Minister Lord David Cameron has backed moves to legalise assisted dying for terminally ill adults. In an article in The Times, Lord Cameron said that while he had opposed moves to legalise assisted dying in the past, he believed the current proposal was " not about ending life, it is about shortening death ".

The Equality and Human Rights Commission said Parliament needs adequate time to scrutinise the proposed legislation.

British lawmakers must decide on Friday whether to support assisted dying in an emotional vote which has split parliament and the country.

The bill only covers England and Wales and would legalise assisted dying for terminally ill adults with less than six months to live and a settled wish to die.

It’s such a clever little euphemism, “assisted dying”. Makes the whole thing sound so kind and helpful, doesn’t it? Much nicer and less bleak than “assisted suicide”. Or, for that matter, “exciting and perfectly legal opportunity to bump off the silly old bat,

The MP behind a move to legalise assisted dying has urged politicians to focus on the families affected by "harrowing deaths" of some terminally ill people when they decide whether to back it or not.

Friday's Parliamentary free vote on legislation to allow assisted dying in England and Wales has split East Lancashire MPs with three intending to oppose it and one supporting the measure. Blackburn’s Adnan Hussain,

How your MP is expected to vote on assisted dying - Labour MP Kim Leadbeater proposed the Private Members Bill in mid-October