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“…r final years at her country home in the New Forest and the timing of her passing was particularly poignant because it came just under three weeks after the assisted dying bill, for which she had been a doughty campaigner, was defeated in the House of…”

“In September 2026, the House of Commons voted against the Assisted Dying Bill, a decision Dame Esther described as "a tragic day".”

“She herself signed up for the Dignitas assisted dying clinic in Switzerland but had to abandon her plan to end her life there after she became too ill to travel.When a private member’s bill to change the law in England and Wales was finally defeated in…”