Terminally ill Britons forced to choose between 'suicide, suffering or Switzerland', MPs told The Health Committee's first session of its assisted dying inquiry heard from peers who described the current situation as 'such a mess'
The Health Committee is also looking to what extent people in England and Wales have access to good palliative care, how that can be improved and whether improvement will negate some of the arguments for changing the law on assisted dying.
said the Committee has received “tens and tens of thousands” of replies to its survey on the subject.through a backbench Bill in 2013, told MPs he had been “personally involved in somebody dying” where towards the end of her life all that was left there was “an except increasing focus… on their inward suffering, where death was absolutely inevitable, and where it was absolutely clear that her assisting herself to die would have been unquestionably the best course, but that was not possible.
He added: “There desperately needs to be an improvement in palliative care”, but that would not resolve the needs of some some people wanting to end their lives earlier.
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