Dying Well is an All-Party Parliamentary Group whose membership is open to Members of both Houses of Parliament and whose website is open to everyone.

 

Our officers are:

 

Baroness Finlay of Llandaff – Chair

Jim Dobbin, MP – Vice Chair

Baroness Cumberledge and Peter Bottomley, MP – Joint Hon. Secretaries

Lord McColl of Dulwich – Hon Treasurer

 

We believe that:

 

-         dying is a natural process which in a civilised society should be supported with good palliative care;

 

-         the quality of palliative medicine and end-of-life care in Britain is of a high standard and, with a re-focusing of NHS resources, it can be made available to everyone who needs it;

 

-         changing the law to allow doctors to end the lives of terminally ill people or to help them to end their own lives would be misguided and would have serious consequences for medicine, for vulnerable people and for society as a whole.

 

Our aims are:

 

-         to promote understanding of how good palliative care can enable terminally people to die peacefully and naturally;

 

-          working with the National Council for Palliative Care, Marie Curie Cancer Care and other hospice care providers, to support efforts to widen and improve palliative care provision so that pain-free, peaceful and natural death becomes a reality for everyone;

 

-         to oppose the legalisation of assisted suicide and euthanasia.