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Hello, I'm Susan Hume and this is the Today in Parliament podcast for Friday the 13th of March.

Coming up, there is a bid to ensure an assisted dying service in England and Wales is kept separate from the NHS.

It means that the patient's care cannot be contaminated. And we'll be looking at

Hollywood's progress on an assisted dying law too. Also, as the Lords investigate the digital

currency stable coins, we get an explainer from the Bank of England.

Money's taken many different forms. It's really fitting we're stood in front of this gold

bar because at one point that was gold and silver coins and then it moved on to paper notes.

Today, actually, there's very little physical money. Most of the money is digital,

it's numbers in our bank account.

And as the bill to eject the final hereditary peers has passed, some words of advice from

a Marquis who's already left.

As far as those are leaving a concern, well, you can still have an enjoyable life without

privilege of sitting on the red benches.

But first, should an assisted dying service be completely separate to healthcare?

The question was the focus of much of the latest day's debate in the Lords on the assisted dying bill.

The legislation would allow terminally ill adults in England and Wales to request help to die

if they're believed to have less than six months to live.

A non-party peer Lady Finley, who is a palliative care expert, wanted a complete separation of assisted death and healthcare.

She used an example from her own practice.

36 years ago, a GP referred a distraught young man whose prognosis as estimated by him,

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