MPs Back Assisted Dying Bill

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MPs back assisted dying bill by majority of 23

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The Terminally Ill Adults Bill was backed by 314 votes to 291 in a historic vote.

It will now go to the House of Lords for further scrutiny.

The last time MPs debated a bill to introduce assisted dying was in 2015 .

MPs recount personal stories of seeing friends and relatives die.

Widow Sara said she had told him she didn't want him to go to a clinic in Switzerland when he became very ill with Huntingdon 's Disease.

She said: "He was becoming locked in his own body and unable to look after himself" However, a group of nuns from the Sisters of Nazareth Mission holding a vigil against the bill urged MPs to prioritise palliative care.

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