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On 29 November 2024 the UK’s parliament voted to take forward Kim Leadbeater’s private members’ bill on assisted dying for people resident in England and Wales. Scotland, Jersey, and the Isle of Man have their own legislation in process. The bill will give adults who are terminally ill and who are deemed to have less than 6 months to live the right to die. These requests …