Report13th September 2024

Interim report: Citizens’ Jury on assisted dying

This report shares key recommendations and vote results from England’s first Citizens’ Jury on assisted dying.

Assisted dying

Interim report (PDF)Recruitment of Jury members.: additional data (PDF)

Our work on assisted dying includes the first Citizens’ Jury in England on the topic, which took place between April and June 2024. The Citizens’ Jury was an opportunity for a diverse group of 30 residents in England, from different walks of life, to learn about and discuss the complexities relevant to assisted dying.

This interim report shares the voting results and recommendations from the Citizens’ Jury, with some contextual information to explain the deliberative process.

The Citizens’ Jury Statement

At their in-person workshops, Citizens’ Jury members worked together to create a collective statement of their principles and to summarise key elements from their deliberations.

This is their statement – in their own words – as agreed on as a group at the end of their time together.

As members of the Citizens’ Jury exploring public views on assisted dying we take our responsibilities very seriously. Over the last eight weeks we have worked together on the basis of respect and kindness. We have shared the values, ideas, ideologies that we as individuals have, and we have heard everyone’s thoughts and opinions. Merging those together to come to a conclusion has been very special.

We have not always agreed on the way forward, but we do all strongly agree on the need have an open conversation across society about assisted dying in the context of a wider discussion about the end of life, helping to remove fear around death.