Too many people have been condemned to die in misery and pain. My assisted dying bill can change that | Kim Leadbeater

There is a heartbreaking lack of choice for those facing a painful death. Parliament now has the chance to give them autonomy – and it should

Kim Leadbeater is Labour MP for Spen Valley

I know that life is precious. It is my belief that we should all have the right to a good life and, where possible, a good death. But we don’t talk about death very much in the UK, which means we don’t talk very much about what a “good death” could, or should, look like.

It’s almost a decade since MPs were last given the chance to vote on the rights and protections available to those in the last months of their lives. A lot has changed in that time, but one thing hasn’t – the heartbreaking lack of choice for those who know that an unbearable and painful death may lay ahead, but who have no power over when or how it occurs.

Kim Leadbeater is Labour MP for Spen Valley

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