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MPs share experiences during impassioned debate on a change of law on assisted dying

Source: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire

MPs took part in an impassioned, and at times emotional debate on assisted dying as Dame Esther Rantzen was praised for bringing the issue to the fore.

Westminster Hall was packed for the three-hour debate triggered by a 200,000-signature petition calling for a change of law to allow people to ask for medical assistance to end their lives.

the campaign after revealing she had joined Dignitas, the assisted dying clinic in Switzerland, on being diagnosed

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