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Esther Rantzen’s life-preserving cancer drugs no longer working, says daughter

Terminally ill journalist and assisted dying supporter no longer healthy enough to travel to Dignitas

The Guardian - UK

Dame Esther Rantzen's 'amazing' cancer drug no longer working , daughter reveals in heartbreaking update

The 84-year-old broadcaster was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer in 2023 and, at one point, was given just weeks to live

Evening Standard

Esther Rantzen’s daughter shares heartbreaking update on presenter’s terminal cancer diagnosis

Rantzen has been a passionate advocate for assisted dying to be legalised in the UK

The Independent UK

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Blur drummer Dave Rowntree's ex-wife left staggering sum in will before ending her life in Dignitas clinic

The last wishes of Blur drummer Dave Rowntree’s ex-wife have been revealed one year after she travelled to Switzerland to end her life.

Evening Standard

Dame Esther Rantzen welcomes GP group changing stance on assisted dying bill

The ChildLine founder revealed she had joined assisted dying organisation Dignitas

The Independent UK

Assisted dying should be about relieving suffering – ex-judge with Parkinson’s

Sir Nicholas said he did not think a new law should be open to people ‘who aren’t suffering but who happen to have a six-month life expectancy’.

Evening Standard

Families who take loved ones to die in Switzerland no longer breaking law, Esther Rantzen says

Broadcaster says MPs vote means police may no longer prosecute people for helping those who go to Dignitas clinic to die

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Dame Esther Rantzen ‘absolutely thrilled’ at assisted dying vote result

The 84-year-old broadcaster had been at the forefront of the debate in the run-up to Friday’s vote.

Evening Standard

Rantzen urges MPs ‘to be honest’ about religious opposition to assisted dying

The broadcaster, who is terminally ill, has been a strong advocate for changing the law to allow dying adults to take their own lives.

Evening Standard

Dame Esther Rantzen tells MPs every vote is crucial in assisted dying debate

The broadcaster said as many MPs as possible should listen to the arguments for and against changing the law and make their own decision.

The Independent UK

Esther Rantzen urges MPs to vote on ‘vital issue’ of assisted dying

TV presenter says subject may not be debated in parliament for another decade if legislation does not pass

The Guardian - UK

Assisted dying law could come at expense of other NHS services, says Streeting

The Health Secretary said the Government would need to work through ‘a very new way of working’ if the Bill was passed.

Evening Standard

‘Palliative care could improve enough for assisted dying but concerns remain’

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has repeatedly said the palliative care system is not ‘where it needs to be to give people a real choice’.

Evening Standard

Starmer to study assisted dying Bill and vows no pressure on MPs over vote

Opposition campaigners have raised fears of coercion and a slippery slope to wider legislation taking in more people.

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The Independent UK

Blur drummer calls UK assisted dying law ‘psychopathic’ after ex-wife went to Switzerland to die alone

Dave Rowntree said criminalisation of assisted dying shows ‘absolutely no empathy for the sufferer’

The Guardian - UK

Blur drummer says UK law on assisted dying is ‘psychopathic’

Dave Rowntree speaks out about his ex-wife’s choice to take her life at Dignitas in Switzerland

Al Jazeera

Britain argues over assisted dying: What to know about the emotive debate

The legislation would allow terminally ill patients with six months or less to live to end their lives.

The Guardian - UK

Doctor spared by Keir Starmer from assisted dying charges ‘is sure PM wants law change’

Exclusive: Starmer, then DPP, said it was not in public interest to prosecute Dr Michael Irwin after arrest in 2009

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The Guardian - UK

What is the background to the MPs’ vote on assisted dying?

The bill is expected to have strict eligibility criteria and is seen as more likely to succeed than an attempt in 2015

Evening Standard

UK public more than twice as likely to support assisted dying than oppose it

A survey of 2,000 adults revealed that nearly half (48 per cent) support assisted dying

Al Jazeera

UK parliament to consider assisted dying law this month

Nine years after the failure of the last assisted dying bill, MPs to vote according their conscience.

The Conversation

Assisted dying: first-hand accounts of what it’s like to help a loved one die

Straight away, she told me she wasn’t going to let the illness progress. She wanted to end this at Dignitas. I was really shocked – firstly about her diagnosis, but also about her immediate decision to die sooner than ‘the end’.

The Guardian - UK

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

Two cancer patients call on election winner to end options of suffering, death at Dignitas, or taking their own lives

The Independent UK

Dana Gillespie: Music is still my last love, in between there’s loads of guys who have come and gone

The singer talks getting Morrissey’s approval for her cover of his song, and her relationships with Davie Bowie and Bob Dylan over the years.

The Guardian - UK

Jonathan Dimbleby urges MPs to ‘get off the fence’ on assisted dying

Public opinion ‘overwhelmingly in favour of change’, says broadcaster, as MPs debate law in Commons

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