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This is our chance to bring dignity, safety and choice to dying in the UK

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23.06.2025

20 June 2025, 14:17

By Sophie Blake

As someone who is living with a terminal illness, the vote on Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying Bill has the potential to completely change my life – and my death, writes Sophie Blake.

I am living with secondary breast cancer, which had spread to my lungs, liver, abdominal lymph node and pelvic bone. This diagnosis is devastating enough, but I live with the fear that I will suffer in pain in my final days.

I know that palliative care can give many people a peaceful and pain-free death, but sadly that is not the case for everyone. I have seen many friends and family members suffer horrible deaths from........

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