General Article Disabled people like me fear legal assisted suicide:

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... it suggests that some lives are less worth living

Disabled people look to doctors to help us live, not to help us die, writes Jane Campbell.

Many terminally ill and disabled people oppose assisted suicide.

Not a single organisation of, or for, disabled people, or one representing people with long-term health conditions has campaigned for assisted suicide to be legalised.

We recognise that Section 2 of the Suicide Act 1961 provides essential protection for all suicidal people, including te...

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