British MPs to hold vote on assisted dying

BRITISH MPs were yesterday holding a knife-edge vote on whether to allow assisted dying for terminally ill people.

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MPs will either progress legislation on euthanasia to the House of Lords upper chamber for further scrutiny or end it entirely following several hours of impassioned debate.

"It is about real people facing the prospect of a painful and undignified death either for themselves or a loved one," said the legislation’s proposer, MP Kim Leadbeater.