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Assisted suicide: An all singing, all dancing show
Ben Cowles talks with LIZ CARR about politics, assisted dying and the inspiration for her new musical

ASSISTED dying is legal in only a handful of countries. Proponents of the policy believe that people with severe terminal illnesses should be allowed to have a licensed doctor end their lives if they so choose.

A common assumption among liberals is that only the deeply religious or wildly conservative would oppose such a thing. Not so.

In fact it was only a year ago that Parliament overwhelmingly voted down a proposed assisted dying Bill.

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