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Should terminally ill people be permitted to end their own life?

Draft legislation is being debated in the House of Lords.

Draft legislation on assisted dying is being debated in the House of Lords on Friday. The bill would give terminally-ill patients of sound mind, who have six months or less to live, the right to end their life with medication approved by two doctors and a High Court Judge.

Martha Kearney speaks to Lord Forsyth, who watched his father slowly succumb to terminal cancer, and Baroness Grey-Thompson, who believes the bill would have a severe impact on disabled people.

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