THREE quarters of people are in favour of a controversial right-to-die bill to be debated in the House of Lords today, according to a new poll.
A YouGov survey for the Dignity in Dying group found that most people were in favour of the terminally ill being allowed to die.
Fifty nine per cent said that there was good care for people in the later stages of a terminal illness, yet 76 per cent were in favour of assisted dying as long as there were safeguards.
Of the 1,770 people questioned, 13 per cent were opposed to the idea.
The survey comes after top doctors joined opponents of the Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill.
The Bill is sponsored by Swindon peer Lord Joffe, and will have its Second Reading debate in the Lords today.
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