Group including academics say they are ‘in solidarity with terminally ill people’ on option of having ‘a good death’

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A group of disability rights campaigners and academics have urged MPs and peers to back the legalisation of assisted dying, saying everyone deserves the chance of a good death.

Led by Tom Shakespeare, an author, broadcaster and professor of disability research at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, the group told parliamentarians they stood “in solidarity with terminally ill people who want to have the option of an assisted death”.