Many shared their personal experiences amid a heated debate, with supporters advocating for patient choice as critics raised concerns about misuse and the need for improved end-of-life care

British lawmakers are set to vote on an assisted dying bill that many say could turn out like Canada's medical assistance in dying program, for better or for worse.

What is the Assisted Dying Bill? MPs set to vote on divisive new law - The Private Member’s Bill calls for terminally ill people in England and Wales to be given the right to choose to end their life

British lawmakers must decide on Friday whether to support assisted dying in an emotional vote which has split parliament and the country. Lawmakers will debate proposals to allow mentally competent,

Parliament will vote on an assisted dying bill this Friday for the first time in nearly a decade. Labour MP Kim Leadbeater proposed the Private Members Bill in mid-October, which will legalise assisted death under certain conditions for terminally ill adults in England and Wales.

Friday's free vote on legislation to allow assisted dying in England and Wales has split East Lancashire's MPs.

The MP behind a move to legalise assisted dying has urged politicians to focus on the families affected by "harrowing deaths" of some terminally ill people when they decide whether to back it or not.

Under the Bill, terminally-ill adults with less than six months to live and a wish to die would be eligible for an assisted death if signed off by two doctors and a High Court judge. On Friday MPs will vote on allowing assisted dying.