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Assisted dying

July 2024

  • Miranda Tuckett

    Woman who went with Briton to Dignitas sues police over her arrest

    Miranda Tuckett, an anthropologist, held in cell for 11 hours after returning from clinic where Sharon Johnston died
  • Antonya Cooper with her son Hamish at Great Ormond Street hospital in 1980.

    Woman who admitted ending terminally ill son’s life in 1981 dies

    Antonya Cooper made admission after her own cancer diagnosis to highlight efforts to change assisted dying laws
  • Antonya Cooper with her son Hamish in 1980.

    UK woman admits helping end life of terminally ill son

    Antonya Cooper, from Oxford, made admission to help efforts to change law on assisted dying

June 2024

  • old person hands in hospital

    More than 130 patients in NSW died through voluntary assisted dying in program’s first three months

  • From left: Helen Skelton, Kate Rasmussen and Sophie Blake all standing and smiling against blue backdrop

    ‘I want a choice’: terminally ill women urge early Commons vote on assisted dying

  • Assisted dying campaigners protest outside parliament in Westminster

    The ultimate choice: an assisted dying special
    The principle of assisted dying – and the practice

  • Head and shoulders shot of actor Susan Hampshire in cream jumper and jacket against grey background

    The ultimate choice: an assisted dying special
    ‘We wouldn’t let animals die in misery. Why should humans?’: Susan Hampshire on why dying must be a choice

  • Rishi Sunak says he is not opposed to assisted dying

  • The ultimate choice: an assisted dying special
    ‘My mother’s death left me with an urgent mission’: Rachael Stirling on sharing Diana Rigg’s views on assisted dying

  • The ultimate choice: an assisted dying special
    ‘After I spoke publicly about it, one woman told me I was in a death cult’: Jonathan Dimbleby on assisted dying

  • The ultimate choice: an assisted dying special
    ‘The flight to Zurich sounds like the worst mini-break possible’: Julian Barnes on why Britain must legalise assisted dying

  • The ultimate choice: an assisted dying special
    ‘While I am healthy now, I’d like to have a little lethal concoction waiting for the right moment’: Prue Leith on the right to die

  • The ultimate choice: an assisted dying special
    ‘I will probably not be given the chance to die in my favourite place’: Esther Rantzen on the right to choose a good death

May 2024

  • Zoraya ter Beek

    Allowing euthanasia for mental suffering is problematic

  • Liz Carr at the Bafta awards in London on 12 May 2024.

    Assisted dying legislation will not harm disabled people

  • People take part in a Dignity in Dying protest outside the states assembly building during a debate on assisted dying

    Jersey approves plans to allow assisted dying for terminally ill adults

  • CS Lewis

    Brief letters
    CS Lewis should have tried self-reflection

  • Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Better Off Dead?; Bridgerton; The Gathering; The Big Cigar – review

  • ‘Once you take choice away, there’s nothing left’: assisted dying edges closer in Jersey, but can they protect against a ‘duty to die’?

  • How a doctor, sailor and lecturer changed Europe’s assisted dying debate

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