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Dignity in Dying is a voluntary organization located in London.

This group believes that terminally ill patients deserve access to information that provides them with a choice on where to die and who should be present.

They fight for change by lobbying to law makers in hopes of improving laws that govern patient choice.

They also hope to promote change by educating people who work in the medical and legal professions about end-of-life decisions.

This group is trying to get a debate going in the Parliament of the United Kingdom after they were able to get one-hundred of them to sign an Early Day Motion.

This motion is aimed at repealing the Suicide Act 1961 which prohibits assisted suicide.

The Dignity with Dying organization argues that this Act causes people to go abroad to get help with assisted suicide, turn to love ones for assistance in suicide, or receive the treatment illegally.

It is the hope of this association that parliament will overturn the Suicide Act of 1961 that allow patients with incurable diseases to be assisted in suicide.