assisted dying

In recent decades, some countries have shifted their stance on assisted dying, with Australia, Canada and New Zealand introducing laws.

Many people helped by Dignitas are those who have travelled to Switzerland because assisted dying is not permitted in their own countries.

But assisted dying, in which a person receives lethal drugs from a medical practitioner which they then administer themselves, has been legal for decades.

Peers have been given an extra 10 days to scrutinise the assisted dying bill, after a record number of amendments prompted concerns it would run out of time to be passed into law.

He also contributed to the debate about assisted dying through his work with Dignity in Dying, his family said.