For nine years a member of a Dutch Regional Review Committee, Prof Theo Boer's experience of legalised euthanasia and assisted suicide saw him go from being a supporter of such legislation to concluding: 'we were wrong - terribly wrong, in fact'.
Concert pianist Matthew Schellhorn considers the Assisted Dying Bill and talks about his experience of being a carer. 'I am so glad I did not have to discuss the Assisted Dying Bill with my terminally ill mother'
On the eve of the House of Lords' debate on Lord Falconer's Assisted Dying Bill, Care Not Killing, an alliance of 40 organisations, has called on peers to reject the proposed legislation on grounds of public safety.
The CEOs of four major charities representing elderly and disabled people have written to all members of the House of Lords to oppose Lord Falconer's Assisted Dying Bill.
Baroness Campbell, noted disability rights campaigner, discusses the real threat posed to disabled people by the Falconer Bill, and why its passage would constitute 'the triumph of despair over hope'
