The wonderful response to our petition, with so many thousands signing it immediately, shows how many feel passionately that the time has come to change a cruel law.
The Daily Express petition calling for a parliamentary debate and free vote on assisted dying backed by Dame Esther Rantzen collected more than 10,000 signatures since going live yesterday.
Dame Prue Leith is to address members of the Scottish Parliament on assisted dying - insisting those north of the border are showing England the way to go .