end of life

She told the Commons on Friday: "The choice of assisted dying as one option for adults when facing six months' terminal illness must be set alongside the choice of receiving the best possible palliative and end of life care, or it is no choice at all."

Also known as end of life care, this service is for those people in the final months and years of their lives.

Leadbeater welcomed Brown's suggestion of a commission and more discussion of end of life care.

"I can not praise the hospice movement enough, I want to see more of that end of life care available," he said, adding this was highly topical in the context of the assisted dying bill published yesterday.

He told the BBC his family had experienced first-hand the "really essential support for people at end of life or life-limiting conditions".