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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 24 April 2026
Debate
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillContribution
My daughter recovered consciousness. She had a high-level spinal injury and would be permanently paralysed, and she could not talk. We taught her to spell words by opening her eyes letter by letter, as we recited the alphabet to her. Ten days after her injury, she blinked the letters of a poem, which gave us hope. It went like this:
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