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But many of those opposed to it argue that policymakers should instead focus on improving palliative care, and some worry that patients undergoing end-of-life care would feel pressured to have an assisted death.

"Shouldn't the government be funding palliative and end-of-life care now, to a greater extent, to ensure that we all have access to the best possible end-of-life and palliative care?"

"And I want that choice to be around assisted dying, if that becomes law, but I also want that choice to be around palliative care."

The mother-of-two also lied about having experience in intensive care, A&E medicine and children's palliative care.

Palliative care is free to recipients and families and available at all income levels, but hospices are businesses, and they must raise sufficient funds through donations, gifts, bequests and reimbursements to compensate employees, repay loans, cover operating costs, and plan for exigencies.