Mira KMar 28, 2024
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#Scotland set for debate over assisted dying MSPs will get the chance to make Scotland the first part of the UK to let people legally end their lives. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-68674769 (c) #BBC #News #Scotland

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Mira KMar 28, 2024
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Attached: 1 image The assisted dying debate: Paola’s story Paola Marra ended her life last week in Switzerland after being told by doctors she could not be guaranteed a pain-free death from bowel cancer in the coming months. Robert Booth reportsLast week Paola Marra arrived in Zurich for the last journey she would ever make. She was in the final months of her life with... #press https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2024/mar/27/the-assisted-dying-debate-paola-marra-story-podcast?utm_source=press.coop

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Tom RitchfordDec 10, 2023

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/dec/09/diana-rigg-assisted-dying-rachael-stirling-mother-cancer

> By the end it hurt her to even smile, let alone laugh. “I think I’ve rather gone off God,” she said slowly and painfully, the day before she died. “I think he’s fucking mean.”

Diana Rigg was my first crush, back in the 60s when I was a tiny lad, and this article made me weep.

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‘It’s gone on too long. Push me over the edge’: Diana Rigg’s dying wishes in the grip of cancer

Rachael Stirling reflects on her mother’s final months – and listens back to the recordings the actor made then, racked with pain, as a passionate advocate of assisted dying

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LiverpoolWizDec 10, 2023
"Diana Rigg made impassioned plea for assisted dying law before death. In a recording in 2020, the actor made a case for giving ‘human beings true agency over their bodies at the end of life’. The actor’s statement calling for a law that gives “human beings true agency over their own bodies at the end of life”, adds to the ongoing debate on assisted dying, with MPs expected to publish recommendations to the government within weeks.
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https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/dec/09/diana-rigg-plea-assisted-dying
‘Nobody speaks about this’: Diana Rigg made impassioned plea for assisted dying law before death

In a recording in 2020, the actor made a case for giving ‘human beings true agency over their bodies at the end of life’

The Guardian