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If you have an illness that cannot be cured, for example, palliative care aims to make you as comfortable as possible by managing your pain and other distressing symptoms.

“It was a very difficult and very distressing death,” she says.

Labour MP Kim Leadbeater introduced the bill, saying the "status quo is not fit for purpose" and her proposals could prevent "very harrowing, very distressing deaths".

She predicted that those cuts would save no money and were "distressing" for victims and everyone else involved in the system.