Dignity in Dying campaigns to give people real choice and control to alleviate unnecessary suffering at the end of life.

The law is not working at the moment. We lobby for improved access to good quality end-of-life care, but this can not alleviate all suffering for every person.

People who can afford to, go to Switzerland for an assisted death, sometimes alone to prevent implicating loved ones and often earlier than they would want to die if they had this choice at home in the UK. The cost alone creates its own inequality of access. 

Whether a terminally ill person wants to prolong their life or shorten it, they should have control over where they die, their treatment options, and whether they have an assisted death. Within safeguards, terminally ill, mentally competent adults should not have to suffer against their wishes at the end of life. The law needs to change, and it will with your help. Act now.

1 February 2010: Dignity in Dying comments on Sir Terry Pratchett's call for "assisted death" to be legalised

In the Richard Dimbleby lecture tonight, Sir Terry Pratchett will call for "assisted death" to be legalised.  He will propose tribunals, which could give people legal permission to end their lives.  Read more on this story.

1 February 2010:  Dignity in Dying comment on: Poll 'support for mercy killings'

A new BBC Poll has found that "almost three-quarters of people support assisted suicide for someone who is terminally ill". Read more on this story.

27 January 2010: New survey shows overwhelming support for assisted dying

The new British Social Attitudes Survey shows that seven in ten (71%) religious people think a doctor should be allowed to end the life of a patient with a painful incurable disease, as do nine in ten (92%) non-religious people.  This represents 82% overall support. Read more on this story.

We do not provide any information on how to end life. We can advise you of your rights under the current UK law but not on how to end your life.  Read more.