Two in five hospices are planning to make cuts this year. I have watched two people I love die in Britain’s end-of-life care system in the last five years. Both my parents died in hospices in England – and what I witnessed is a system that is fraying at the edges. Too few staff, too little time, too many compromises. And ultimately, final days and hours that were often fraught, panicked and desperate. Later tonight, Scotland could become the first nation in the UK to legalise assisted dying.