Dying people don’t have the luxury of time, yet a small but vocal minority of opponents in the House of Lords are attempting to run down the clock on the assisted dying Bill. www.express.co.uk/news/politic...

"it’s my death I’m talking about, probably the most intimate moment in my life, and I resent anyone who wants to step in the way and tell me how they believe it has to happen." @anthonyhorowitz.com on how his mother's death shaped his view on assisted dying www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...

"My mum’s birthday wish was to die. This year, many others will wish the same. The cycle doesn’t have to continue." www.express.co.uk/news/politic...

Adrian Shooter, who had MND, travelled to Switzerland to die. His widow Barbara has devatatingly been diagnosed with the same disease www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/article/i-have-mnd-just-like-my-husband-i-want-the-right-to-die-too-t9lpct3tg?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1766909225

As 2025 draws to a close, we want to thank you for being part of a transformative year for choice at the end of life. Courage, compassion and persistence turned decades of advocacy into real progress. Together, let’s make 2026 the year the UK delivers true choice at the end of life.

As 2025 draws to a close, here at Compassion in Dying we’ve been reflecting on a significant year for personalisation and patient power in end-of-life care. Our latest blog explores some of the activities and moments we are proud of from the last 12 months.

‘Cruel’ amendments are being used to thwart assisted dying bill, says lead MP

Illinois officially became the 13th jurisdiction in the United States, and the first in the Midwest, to authorize medical aid in dying with Gov. Pritzker’s signature of the Illinois End-of-Life Options for Terminally Ill Patients Act (SB 1950), also known as Deb’s Law. ✊🌟👏

The Chief Whip, Lord Kennedy, has called for significant progress to be made today, he has also set out that interventions should be brief and for clarification only.

Here outside Parliament with the families affected by the status quo awaiting the final day of Committee this year - we're all hopeful for good progress today on the assisted dying Bill

@dignityindying.org.uk event in Treorci this afternoon. A couple of people stopped for a chat and supported the right for people to choose a dignified death.

Very sad to learn that @dignityindying Patron Sir Terence English has died, aged 93. He was a wonderful support to the campaign for greater choice at the end of life, and a lovely man www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crrk9w8wp75o

“If they continue to push against the expressed will of the democratic majority, the Lords may find that it is their own future which becomes the question.” Christine Jardine MP joins many arguing that time-wasting tactics risk tarnishing the House's reputation. www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

"In order to truly meet people’s needs, we must listen to terminally ill people...We need both care and choice – that is what this bill seeks to achieve" Baroness Hayter www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/14/palliative-care-and-choice-must-be-at-the-heart-of-the-assisted-dying-debate

A timely reminder, while Peers debate this inside Parliament, of the human cost if they don’t address our cruel law. People should not be forced to suffer against their wishes in their final days. news.sky.com/story/eds-li...

Today marks the beginning of the Committee Stage of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill in the Lords, where it will receive line by line scrutiny from the whole House. An important step towards greater compassionate choice for dying people

“I can’t imagine a committee hearing for any other bill not having representatives from… the people this bill will actually impact.” Sophie, a mum with incurable cancer, is disappointed the Lords Committee on assisted dying didn’t hear from terminally ill people. Peers must hear from people like her

Putting to one side that Jeremy Hunt could have done more when he was health secretary, this is spot on in highlighting the deep systemic problems of a specialist health service shaped by ideology rather than safety, with devastating consequences for patients. www.thetimes.com/article/a3ff...

[email protected] confirming that Terminally Ill Adults Bill has acted as a“catalyst for the work we’re doing in palliative and end-of-life care” and that the Government will shortly publish a plan to strengthen services across the country. 🙌 👏

"the debate on assisted dying has nothing to do with saving someone from an unhappy death; it’s about sparing them an unhappy life" www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/columnists/is-it-christian-to-oppose-assisted-dying-david-behrens-5371324#selection-579.0-698.0 @yorkshirepost.co.uk

The Assisted Dying Select Committee in the Lords today rightly explored what it would mean to practically deliver this Bill. Royal Colleges and BMA are broadly clear that assisted dying should be a 'separate service' and this thread unpacks what that might mean for patients. 1/5

Lord Hope is opening the select committee proceedings by setting out the purpose of the committee - to obtain information, expertise and insight ahead of the detailed scrutiny by the Committee of the whole house on the assisted dying Bill

“The wealthy have choice. We need to be mindful that society has spoken via the Commons, and this choice of whether to end suffering needs to be afforded to all the people and not just to the elite.” Louise Shackleton #YesToDignity www.itv.com/news/2025-10...

The blanket ban on assisted dying in this country has put Louise - and too many like her - through more than any grieving widow should have to experience. I join Louise in her relief that this process is over. But it should never have happened. news.sky.com/video/assist...

Uruguay has legalised assisted dying with a 2/3 majority in the senate. Uruguay follows Colombia and Ecuador, which decriminalised assisted dying through Supreme Court decisions. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Liam McArthur MSP has lodged a number of amendments to his Assisted Dying Bill ahead of Committee beginning Stage 2 scrutiny of the Bill on 4th November www.scotlibdems.org.uk/news/article/mcarthur-sets-out-amendments-to-assisted-dying-bill a thread 1/4

Sad news about such a pioneer and legend who did so much for animal protection and scientific research - and was the very best of us. RIP

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9... "Jane was more than a conservationist, she was a beacon of compassion for all life." 👏👏

. @kimleadbeatermp.bsky.social speaks to @healthcaretoday.bsky.social about how whether you are led by head or heart, changing the law on assisted dying is the right thing to do healthcaretoday.com/article/kim-...

On my way to #LAB25 and proud of how far @dignityindying.org.uk campaign has come in a year. #YesToDignity

“We provide a human connection in a disconnected system” In this latest article from RCNi, specialist nurse Amber reflects on joining our clinical team and how prioritising people through phone-based support acts as a crucial safety net in end-of-life care. rcni.com/nursing-stan...

Every stage the Bill clears brings us closer to the safe and compassionate assisted dying law that people across the country are calling for www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2110887/assisted-dying-campaign-law-second-reading-house-of-lords

"This has been a debate of the highest quality, probably the highest quality I have heard in 28 years in this House. Your Lordships brought passion, expertise and wisdom to the issue." Lord Falconer summing up yesterday's assisted dying Second Reading debate

The assisted dying Bill has received its Second Reading in the House of Lords and will progress to Committee Stage

Lord Falconer welcomes Baroness Berger's motion to set up a Select Committee following Second Reading and before Committee Stage

Lord Falconer is now concluding the debate by paying particular tribute to Peers on both sides who have drawn on their own personal suffering in their speeches

Baroness Merron, Health and Social Care Minister states that the Government is neutral on the issue of assisted dying - and that her role is to continue to work with the Bill's sponsors as the Bill progresses

Baroness Pidgeon is one of the many Peers drawing on personal experience in their speeches - her father in law would have wanted this choice, and she reinforces that it is not for the Lords to block this Bill

Baroness Hayter reconfirms that this Bill is not about choosing to die, they are already dying. She sets out that Peers' task is to ensure the Bill achieves its ends with proper safeguards, and look for genuine improvements

Baroness Whitaker has changed her mind in favour of assisted dying, as a result of the evidence. She would like to relieve her family, and herself, of intolerable suffering, so she asks how could she deny that for others

Baroness Watkins, as a former district nurse, would like to encourage society to discuss and complete advance directives

Lord Cashman shares the words of someone facing death; his friend Elise who is facing the end of her life, and trying to find joy every single day. He asks on her behalf for Peers to vote for 'another way' for dying people

"palliative care cannot always relieve suffering" Lord Freyberg, and after weighing both sides, he will support the Bill

Lord Oates shares his experience of his terminally ill friend, who wanted more than anything to live, but who chose to take matters into his own hands to end his unbearable suffering because there was no choice of assisted dying available to him

Lord Moynihan talks of his grandfather who introduced the first assisted dying Bill in the House of Lords, but who died before its Second Reading. He supports the passage of this Bill, and the opportunities they have to improve it.

Lord Johnson supports the assisted dying Bill, which he reminds the Lords also has the mandate of the elected House. For him "the case for change, remains strong"

'Fellow peers said they were 'saddened' by Baroness May's comments' www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15114419/Lords-war-assisted-dying-ex-PM-Theresa-accused-distressing-terminally-ill-people-licence-kill-bill-jibe.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=social-twitter_mailonline

"I pray that both of these institutions, which I hold so dearly for the importance of our role in public life, do not risk our legitimacy by claiming that we know better than either the public or the Other Place." Lord Carey on the Church and the House of Lords

Lord Carey has been on both sides of this debate, and now supports assisted dying. "The act of kindness and the art of healing is that of accompanying a pain ridden person to the point of death, alleviating their suffering"

Lord Markham would like to find a way to allow a kinder, safer death for dying Britons here, in their own country, in line with their own choices