2 hours ago Matt Hancock urges MPs to back assisted dying after constituent’s cancer tragedy changed his mind

Exclusive: The former health secretary told The Independent he can remember the moment he changed his mind on assisted dying

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3 hours ago UK politics live: David Cameron becomes first former PM to back assisted dying bill in major U

Lord Cameron said the assisted dying bill ‘is not about ending life, it is about shortening death’

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3 hours ago David Cameron supports assisted dying bill due to ‘extremely strong’ safeguards

The legislation would lead to meaningful reduction in human suffering, says former prime ministerDavid Cameron has said he has changed his mind on assisted dying and supports the bill to legalise it ahead of its first Commons vote this week.The former prime minister, who previously opposed changing the law, said he had been persuaded by the safeguards in the bill and believed it would achieve a “meaningful reduction in human suffering”. Continue reading...

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3 hours ago ‘I’m embarrassed that I fell for it:’ Director of JonBenét Ramsey Netflix doc changes his mind on the crime

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Joe Berlinger ‘fell for’ the narrative casting suspicion on the Ramsey family after 6-year-old JonBenét was found murdered in her Boulder home on December 26, 1996. His new three-part Netflix docuseries explores alternatives – and pressures Boulder authorities to finally solve the case, writes Sheila Flynn

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13 hours ago David Cameron becomes first former PM to back assisted dying law change

Tory peer Lord Cameron said the law change being debated by MPs was ‘not about ending life, it is about shortening death’.

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19 hours ago 'Our elderly, frail patients frequently feel they are a burden, to their family, to the NHS'

Dr Cajetan Skowronski writes against assisted dying saying the 'right to die inevitably becomes a duty to die'. He adds: 'Our elderly, frail patients frequently feel they are a burden'

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30 hours ago MPs will vote, but there is a better way to decide who has the right to die | Rafael Behr

In an age of cynicism and mistrust, politicians must work harder to involve the public in difficult decisionsWhen MPs vote this Friday on assisted dying, they will be trying to answer two questions folded into one. First comes the ethical choice. Is it ever permissible for one person to help someone else take their own life? Then comes the regulatory challenge. Under what conditions might that permission be granted in law?It isn’t easy to separate those considerations. Sometimes you have to work through scenarios of implementation before arriving at a view on the prior principle. But when legislation is being drafted, the two questions must logically be answered in sequence, not in parallel. When and how are only relevant debates if the answer to the question of whether assisted dying c...

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