Dr Libby Sallnow: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- Associate Professor of Palliative and End-of-Life Care at UCL and Director of the Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Institute
- Quoted on
- Palliative & end of life care, Assisted dying
- Tracked press citations
- 3
- Most recently quoted
- 30 Sept 2026
- First quoted
- 8 Sept 2026
“We need to build death in to be part of life. Then it allows you to face it from much more solid ground than if you've not thought about it, because it's just too big and too frightening.”
What Dr Libby Sallnow has said
“Neither increased access to palliative care nor legislation for assisted dying will fix our broken relationship with death. Death takes place in complex social systems and we need to understand, debate and change those systems to rebalance our relationship with death.”
Co-chair, Lancet Commission on the Value of Death · Assisted dying · 10 Sept 2026 · Parliament must heed public opinion on assisted dying | Letters ↗
“Doctors are, in Dr. Sallnow's words, "wrong more often than right" regarding six-month prognosis predictions, and she stresses the importance of thorough transitional and implementational research if the bill passes.”
Associate Professor of Palliative and End-of-Life Care at UCL and Director of the Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Institute · Assisted dying · 8 Sept 2026 · Redefining death: palliative care and the assisted dying debate ↗
Where Dr Libby Sallnow has been quoted
- “We need to build death in to be part of life”: Dr Libby Sallnow on dying wellucl.ac.uk · 30 Sept 2026
- Parliament must heed public opinion on assisted dying | Letterstheguardian.com · 10 Sept 2026
- Redefining death: palliative care and the assisted dying debatekinesismagazine.com · 8 Sept 2026
Related media coverage
Recent UK press coverage of their topics — not necessarily citing them directly.
- “No one has ever told me they want to die in hospital. We must give people a real alternative”Marie Curie
- Devon nurse challenges belief that palliative care means giving up hopeExmouth Journal
- Voluntary euthanasia: will it be a fickle majorityThe Malta Independent Online
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