Is assisted suicide truly a ‘free choice’? What choice at the end of life really means and how can it be made freely

Adelaide Di Maggio
01 July 2025, The Tablet

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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