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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Times Letters: Disabled rights and the poll on assisted dying

The Times

Sir, As a disabled person and a lifelong campaigner for disabled people’s rights, I strongly disagree with Baroness Grey-Thompson’s assertion (Thunderer, Jan 23) that disabled people would somehow be made more vulnerable or marginalised if assisted dying were legalised as a choice for terminally ill people at the end of life. Such a change in the law is supported by an overwhelming majority of disabled people (86 per cent, according to a 2015 Populus poll, even more than the general public at 82 per cent), who like me understand that assisted dying is about allowing terminally ill people to die well, not about devaluing or ending the lives of people who may otherwise be helped. This strength of feeling signals to me that change can