Top UK brain surgeon calls for urgent inquiry into assisted dying | Assisted dying | The Guardian theguardian.com Top UK brain surgeon calls for urgent inquiry into assisted dying Harriet Sherwood 4-5 minutes Henry Marsh, one of the UK’s leading brain surgeons and a bestselling author, has called for an urgent inquiry into assisted dying after revealing he has advanced prostate cancer. Marsh, the author of Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery , said dying of cancer could be “a very horrible business” but the law “insists I must suffer”. Politicians had “shown a striking lack of compassion by ducking this issue for too long and are inadvertently guilty of great cruelty”, he said. His call for an inquiry is backed by more than 50 MPs and peers from different parties, some of whom have previously voted against changing the law. Their letter to Robert Buckland, the justice se
