Kylie Ellina Truswell-Mobbs pleaded guilty to assisting the suicide of her terminally ill husband, David Ronald Mobbs, after prosecutors dropped a murder charge.
Sue Ryder chief nurse Jane Turner writes that MPs from across the assisted dying debate agreed that palliative care in the UK is failing many patients.
Speaking at the Catholic pilgrimage site of Lourdes, Pope Leo XIV urged believers to reject legalized assisted dying, months after France enacted a law permitting it for some terminally ill patients.
The pontiff's first state visit to France in 18 years comes amid contentious debates over assisted dying and clergy abuse.
A Guardian letters page gathers reader responses to the narrow rejection of England and Wales' assisted dying bill, with views split on what the vote revealed about parliamentary scrutiny.
Andrew Hastie told a parliamentary inquiry that Microsoft Copilot suggested celebratory responses to a terminally ill constituent who wrote about his plan to use voluntary assisted dying.
Lauren Edwards, who reintroduced the terminally ill adults bill, argues in a Guardian opinion piece that peers should not block legislation she says has strong public support.
Supporters and opponents of the assisted dying bill both raise concerns ahead of Friday's Commons vote, as the legislation returns for a second attempt after being blocked in the House of Lords.