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The gift of giving

Jenni Murray

I am a firm supporter of the not-for-profit Dignity in Dying, which fights to give terminally ill people the choice to die on their own terms, a right supported by the overwhelming majority of the public and no doubt many readers of this magazine.

I became convinced of the need for an assisted dying law after witnessing my own parents’ deaths.

Both would have been comforted by the option to die swiftly and peacefully at a time and place of their choosing, and it would have soothed my own grief to know they died with ease and dignity.

dignityindying.org.uk

Joanna Lumley

I suggest , a charity which supports the surviving veterans and widows of the Burmese Army who fought alongside our allied forces in South-East Asia during the Second World War. The hill peoples of Burma/Myanmar,

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