Suicide tourism is on the rise, experts said after they found that the number of people travelling to Switzerland to take their own lives had doubled in four years.
One in five people who travelled to Zurich for assisted suicide between 2008 and 2012 were from the UK, researchers found.
Introducing the Assisted Dying Bill in the UK would not lead to more death but to less suffering, Lord Falconer said during a debate in the House of Lords, as figures released showed that the number of of people travelling to Switzerland to take their own lives had doubled in four years.
Samantha Geimer, who was 13 when the director is said to have raped her, asked the court to end her suffering in an "act of mercy".
A report shows the UK's congested roads cost the economy £300 billion a year as councils call on extra funding to help tackle the problem.
Shouts of "we are not afraid" rang out across Barcelona as people gathered to pay tribute to those caught up in the deadly terror attacks.