Mark Taubert

Professor Mark Taubert is a hospital consultant based at Velindre Cancer Centre in Cardiff.

The uncomfortable truth about assisted dying

This week, the Labour MP Kim Leadbeater finally put forward the much-awaited bill on assisted dying, which will likely be discussed in the coming weeks. Supporters of the bill have been campaigning on the issue for years, with legislation on the topic most recently rejected by the House of Commons in 2015. This bill, however,