When standing in front of Westminster Palace on that sunny, yet ‘Black Friday’, afternoon of 29 November 2024, amid a disappointed and puzzled crowd, after Kim Leadbeater MP’s Terminally Ill (End of Life) Bill had passed its Second Reading, I was approached by a man beaming in a Dignity in Dying pink t-shirt. He was just coming back from the other side of the square, where he had been showing his support for what he defined as ‘the right of people to make a decision on the end of their lives.
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