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I'll defend his choice in doing it and me helping him right to the end.

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Barbara wants to talk about assisted dying.

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If you're in the last throes of a terminal illness and you're suffering intolerably and you wanted to end, it's an act of enormous cruelty not to let someone end their life.

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She helped her husband, Adrian, to die. Two years ago, they traveled to Switzerland to end his life.

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We were together for 20 years, and during that 20 years, our big passion was endurance car rallying in old cars. And we'd driven all over the world in over 80 countries. And he wanted me to drive him because he said it was going to be our last road trip. I helped the dying, suffering man have a decent end, a loving, compassionate, calm, peaceful, controlled, pain-free, quick, end because he couldn't carry or he did not want to carry on living.

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More than 200,000 people have signed a petition on forcing a debate in Parliament, but not everyone is convinced.

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I am deeply worried, deeply concerned about the idea of legislating dying, assisted suicide in the UK in the current premise of our healthcare system. We need to be very careful about what we ask for in this country in this setting. So I asked the government to relook at this. I asked for health care to look at this again. And if we want this in this country, we need to go back out to the public to have a proper conversation about what it is that assisted dying is in the UK.

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Today's debate will give MPs a chance to share their views. What MPs say and do next is a matter of life and death.. Daniel Henry, Skylooms.