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Letters: Dr Sarah Davies, Sarah McCulloch, Jean Farrer and Charlie King respond to articles on the progress of the bill and the role of hospices

Minelli founded the Dignitas organisation in 1998 after decades working as a journalist and lawyer

Louise Shackleton says current law is traumatising families and she wanted jury to assess her innocence

Louise Shackleton faced ‘excruciating pressure’ while awaiting decision of CPS, which said prosecution not in public interest

Esther Rantzen has said she will go to Dignitas to die alone as she made a desperate plea to the government

The Lords was debating the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill for the first time on Friday.

The Childline founder is among the high-profile critics of the current law, branding it ‘cruel’.

COMMENT: As the right-to-die legislation passes its final Commons hurdle, Mary Dejevsky explains how it falls far short of helping those who might have been pinning their hopes on it, namely people like her late partner with chronic progressive conditions such as Parkinson’s disease

The beloved broadcaster and Childline founder, 84, is battling stage 4 lung cancer and recently revealed her time is now ‘extremely limited’