This is a deeply personal, deeply divisive issue; and today a private members bill to permit assisted dying in the UK is being presented to the House of Commons.
Politicians will have a free vote on the issue later this year. The New Statesman this week asks whether the UK and its care system is ready for such a law.
In this episode we speak to those who’ve lost loved ones and are left with questions about whether an assisted death would have been better, as well as palliative care experts Nancy Preston and Dr Katherine Sleeman.
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