Surely good palliative care and assisted dying (with appropriate safeguards) are not either/or. We need both. But Gordon Brown is right that the UK's hospice care funding is a disgrace. The hospices' work is too important to depend on voluntary fundraising. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/22/gordon-brown-improve-end-of-life-care-rather-than-allow-assisted-dying