Sarah Wootton: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- Chief Executive of Dignity in Dying
- Quoted on
- Assisted dying, Palliative & end of life care, Cancer
- Tracked press citations
- 4
- Most recently quoted
- 30 Sept 2026
- First quoted
- 27 Aug 2026
“This announcement will come as an enormous relief to terminally ill people and their families. After decades of campaigning, and historic parliamentary progress towards giving dying people proper choice and protection at the end of life, many feared that law change had been derailed despite the clear support of both the public and elected MPs.”
What Sarah Wootton has said
“This vote marks a decisive moment for Jersey, bringing compassionate choice at the end of life within touching distance. States Members have now agreed the fundamental principles of a safeguarded assisted dying law, voting to respect the experiences of dying people and the clear views of the Jersey public.”
Chief Executive of Dignity in Dying · Palliative & end of life care · 30 Sept 2026 · Jersey set to legalise assisted dying next month following landslide vote ↗
“Paola's death has a lasting legacy. Her voice – and those of so many dying people and families – have changed this debate for ever. But people are still having to make the same impossible journeys, facing the same impossible choices that Paola did.”
Chief Executive of Dignity in Dying · Assisted dying · 10 Sept 2026 · ‘She didn’t want that pain’: Paola Marra’s brother despairs of Lords block on assisted dying bill ↗
“Every week, dying people are left with the same cruel options: suffer, travel abroad to die, or act alone.”
Chief Executive of Dignity in Dying · Cancer · 27 Aug 2026 · ‘I want my choice’: terminally ill people join Rankin to demand revival of assisted dying bill ↗
Where Sarah Wootton has been quoted
- Renewed hope for assisted dying bill as Kent MP gives it second chancekentonline.co.uk · 30 Sept 2026
- Jersey set to legalise assisted dying next month following landslide votedignityindying.org.uk · 30 Sept 2026
- ‘She didn’t want that pain’: Paola Marra’s brother despairs of Lords block on assisted dying billtheguardian.com · 10 Sept 2026
- ‘I want my choice’: terminally ill people join Rankin to demand revival of assisted dying billtheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
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