Biography
Lord Sassoon has engaged on assisted dying through debate speeches, expressing support for a "carefully circumscribed assisted dying regime" along the lines of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, and drawing on personal experience of severely ill family members. He has acknowledged throughout the debates the repeated calls for additional palliative care resources across England and Wales, while noting that public support for assisted dying legislation is consistent across the United Kingdom.
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“…akes passionate and eloquent interventions, first accept that point about the need for additional resources for palliative care across both England and Wales has been made repeatedly through these debates? I think the Committee does not need to hear more about the need for additional resources for palliative care in Wa…”
Record by topic
- Assisted dying170th of 3714.0
- Palliative & end of life care294th of 5684.0
- Learning disability & autism756th of 8992.0
What they’ve said
“…I support the introduction of a carefully circumscribed assisted dying regime along the lines of the Bill. I have seen two very severely ill immediate family members have the times of their deaths determined by a combination of medical practitioners and other close family members.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2025-09-19 · Read on Hansard ↗
“My Lords, legislation to overrule decisions of the courts that the Government do not like should be used very rarely. It should not be used in this case to promote a scheme which started with the best of intentions but has gone sadly, badly wrong. My mother’s father and uncle were born in Frankfurt, Germany.”
Holocaust Memorial Bill · 2024-09-04 · Read on Hansard ↗
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