Gordon Brown, the former Labour Prime Minister, has come out strongly against assisted suicide just a week before a crucial vote in the House of Commons.
Mr Brown, who succeeded Tony Blair in 2007 and served until 2010, said that he instead favoured investment in good quality health care for people at the end of their lives.
His opinion, he said in an article for The Guardian, was informed by the loss of his daughter Jennifer, who died from a brain haemorrhage just 11 days after her premature birth in 2002.
