Let Us Choose – legalise assisted dying
In support of Kim Leadbeater MP’s Bill on choice at the end of life, people who have first hand experience of the suffering caused by the blanket ban on assisted dying have come together with a simple message for MPs – “Let Us Choose”.
We’re spreading this message far and wide, across a range of places. On billboards, in newspapers, and online, from Westminster to each corner of Britain.
If you want the choice too, let your MP know before 29 November.
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My Dying Wish – Let Us Choose
In spite of the huge swell of support for legalising assisted dying, without the backing and support of MPs, nothing will change. Until they commit to change, an assisted dying bill will remain a plea… a dying wish.
Everyone has a dying wish at the end of their lives. Whether that’s about where you want to be, who you want to be there, the last song you hear, the last meal you eat.
For too many dying people right now, their dying wish is simply for choice and control at the end of their life. If passed, Kim Leadbeater MBE MP’s Bill will mean that, finally, their wishes – our wishes – can be respected.
It’s time for MPs to let us choose. Together we need to show them why they must vote Yes to the choice at the end of life bill and legalise assisted dying for terminally ill, mentally competent adults. That’s why we’re taking dying wishes to the heart of Westminster.
Anil’s Dying Wish
“It meant he had to choose a dangerous, unpredictable and lonely way to end his life. The law meant we couldn’t say goodbye.”
Anil believes the law failed his father, Ian who took his own life the day before his 60th birthday in February 2019. When he died he was in the terminal stage of multiple sclerosis. His death was a result of a lethal dose of drugs purchased on the dark web.
Sophie’s Dying Wish
“I don’t want to die, this is not a death wish, this is hoping that I can then have a pain-free peaceful death at the very end if I need to use it when the time comes.”
Sophie Blake from Brighton wants her 16-year-old daughter Maya to remember her for the fun life she’s lived, not for her suffering at the end. Sophie is living with stage four breast cancer and wants peace of mind over her life and her death.
Jenny’s Dying Wish
“The possibility for some peace and a better death is there.”
Jenny Carruthers, from Bath, has terminal breast cancer. She wants the right to control her death, and believes terminally ill people deserve a voice. Her partner died of liver cancer in 2013 and she saw first-hand what it’s like to die a painful death.
Sophie, Jenny and Anil have come together with one message: When we cannot stay, let us choose how we go.
Take action today to back Kim Leadbeater MP’s bill on choice at the end of life and play your part to legalise assisted dying.