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Hello, I'm Sean Curran, and this is today in Parliament from BBC Radio 4 for Friday the 6th of February,

when peers continued their debate on the safeguards in the assisted dying bill.

If we've got to wait 31 years for taxis to be accessible for disabled people,

can noble laws not understand why disabled people fear this bill?

But others reflect on the suffering of family members.

And I remember him saying to me in the last two or three months in his life,

I just wish somebody could help me here and so that I could end my life.

Also on the program, a campaign to improve brain cancer treatment comes to Westminster.

It may cost money, but it's a chance for us to be a world leader in life sciences.

This is something that could benefit everybody and sell something around the world.

And we know him as an 18th century playwright.

But it turns out Sheridan was also bringing down the House in Parliament.

Not any does he speak for five and a half hours.

He does so, so successfully, that at the end of it, the Commons erupts in

applause and cheers. But first, a disability rights campaigner has complained that plans to legalise

assisted dying in England and Wales will put a price on his head. The legislation would allow an

adult with less than six months to live to ask for help to end their own life,

subject to approval by two doctors and a panel. Lord Shingwin, a conservative, wanted to change the

terminally ill adult's end-of-life bill so that anyone with a congenital, genetic or lifelong condition wouldn't be treated

as terminally ill and thus eligible for an assisted death. He said no organisation for disabled people

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