News & press releases

• News
• 21st May 2019

Acts of love and compassion should not be criminalised

An open letter to all MPs and Peers from Ann Whaley.

• News
• 21st May 2019

Compassion is not a crime: new campaign ‘Acts of Love’ launched by families devastated by ban on assisted dying

• News
• 18th April 2019

Dignity in Dying responds to Lord Sumption’s recent comments on assisted dying

• News
• 2nd April 2019

‘Let’s do the Right Thing’ Dignity in Dying Scotland campaign launches as poll shows almost 90% of Scots now in favour of assisted dying

A poll commissioned by Dignity in Dying Scotland shows that almost nine out of ten Scots questioned now support assisted dying becoming law.

• News
• 2nd April 2019

Largest ever poll on assisted dying finds increase in support to 84% of Britons

• News
• 28th March 2019

Noel Conway wins national campaigning award

• Press release
• 21st March 2019

Royal College of Physicians will drop its longstanding opposition to assisted dying

Dignity in Dying responds to the news that the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) will drop its longstanding opposition to assisted dying and adopt a ‘neutral’ position, following the UK’s largest ever survey of medical opinion on this issue.

• News
• 20th March 2019

Dignity in Dying exposes network of anti-choice activists trying to silence doctor survey

• News
• 18th February 2019

Dignity in Dying welcomes the commitment from the Government of Jersey to consider assisted dying

• Jersey’s Council of Ministers will commission research into end-of-life choices in Jersey • Research will explicitly include “issues associated with assisted dying”

• News
• 7th February 2019

Terminally ill Brit urges MPs to change law on assisted dying, on the day of his death at Dignitas