Some politicians and groups oppose legally permitting assisted dying.
Speaking to the BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, former Paralympian Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson warned everyone needed to “understand the implications” of it becoming law.
Despite safeguards, she claimed legislation could still be “open to a huge amount of abuse”.
Dr Gordon Macdonald, chief executive of the campaign group Care Not Killing, called assisted dying a “dangerous and ideological policy”.
He said the UK should instead fix its “broken and patchy palliative care system so everyone can have a dignified death”.
More than two thirds of Britons (69%) think the law should be changed to allow someone to assist in the suicide of another who is suffering from a terminal illness, according to YouGov research, external from 2024.