The Assisted Dying Bill, reintroduced by Lauren Edwards, the Labour MP for Rochester and Strood, is scheduled to return to the House of Commons for a second reading on 11 September.
The bill previously failed to pass in the House of Lords after hundreds of amendments were tabled by a minority of opposing peers, causing it to run out of time.
Over 100 cross-party peers, including former cabinet secretary Gus O’Donnell and former Labour leader Neil Kinnock, have written to MPs. They are urging them to send the bill back to the House of Lords to complete its passage through parliament, stating that the upper house's failure to pass the legislation in the previous session disappointed terminally ill people and their families.
Elise Burns, a 52-year-old woman who campaigned for the bill after being diagnosed with terminal secondary cancer, died on 22 July. Her sister, Sarah Burns, will be at the Commons for the debate. Keith Williams, a 77-year-old former welder and campaigner, also died on 16 June after being diagnosed with lung cancer.