The case for assisted dying is simple.

To some, it feels obvious.

It's your life and it should be, as much as it ever can be, your death.

And lots of people go through unbelievable forms of suffering in the final stages of their

lives.

Those are the people for whom the much-discussed terminally ill adults, bracket, end-of-life bill, is designed.

But the realities on the ground are far more complex than this principled picture suggests.

Conditions for disabled people in the UK have come under a sustained assault

for almost a decade and a half under the Tory government

and now could worsen still under labour.

That's led disability rights organisations to express their strong opposition to the bill.

They worry that if the bill is passed, disabled people will have to spend their lives fighting off pressure

to let themselves be killed. I spoke to Ellen Clifford, a disability activist and author of the book

The War on Disabled People. She is strongly against the current bill. If like me, your sympathies are instinctually in favour of a right to die as and when you choose,

then this is an urgent conversation to have.

Even if the principles of assisted dying seem clear, we must listen to those who feel themselves with clear

justification to be at risk of being killed by a state that has so often shown its callous

disregard for their lives and to do so ostensibly with their own permission. This episode was

recorded in January and we're releasing it now,

while it's been going through the parliamentary committee stage, because parts of the bill have

now changed. At the time of recording, last month, the plan, as set out in the bill, was to have

each case of assisted dying signed off by a high court judge.

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