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Dignity in Dying campaigns for assisted dying, not assisted suicide or euthanasia: what is the difference?

Dignity in Dying advocates assisted dying – this gives terminally ill, mentally competent adults the choice to control the time and manner of their own death via life-ending medication, within safeguards. We do not advocate assisted suicide for non-terminally ill people. Furthermore, we do not advocate euthanasia which allows doctors to directly end patients’ lives.

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