Dignity and choice

The approval of the Assisted Dying Bill by the British House of Commons marks a quiet but profound turning point in the country’s approach to individual rights at the end of life.

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By granting terminally ill adults the legal right to choose the timing and manner of their death, Parliament has touched upon an issue that for decades has lain at the uneasy intersection of personal dignity, medical ethics, and societal responsibility. This vote was neither easily won nor overwhelmingly conclusive.