There are moves to bring assisted dying into law in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.
Jill Crawford lost her dad Derek to dementia in 2019to give terminally ill people in England and Wales the right to choose to end their life will be voted on by MPs on 29 November.
Her challenge to Northern Ireland Assembly members is to "stop hiding and brushing things under the carpet in the hope somebody else will pick it up".Jill thinks politicians should consider mental as well as terminal illness in the debate around assisted death. Tim Cairns, from Christian Action Research and Education , is against an assisted dying bill anywhere in the UK.
"Up to this point I think people have just been trying to ignore the fact that it’s happening everywhere else and not happening in Northern Ireland," he said.
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