The Bill, brought to Parliament by Kirklees MP Kim Leadbeater, is one step closer to becoming law.

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/assisted-dying-passes-house-commons-31901375

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11 comments

  1. It’s what the public wanted. Nice the MPs are finally listening to who put them in power.

  2. Good. If Kemi Badenoch is against it, it must be a sensible idea.

  4. I don’t really understand why people are against this? If a person is suffering from a life ending disease why should they have to suffer just because we force them too? Why can’t they make that decision themselves?

    It literally doesn’t affect the absolute vast majority of the population, but the ones it does affect it makes a big impact for.

  5. They’ll work us to exhaustion and then give us the privilege of topping ourselves when our bodies get too broken 🥳

  7. I’m glad to see this go through. To late for my dad but it will give us the choice if anything nasty comes our way.

  8. Fun fact even if the Lords say no they can only delay it for a year then Commons can reintroduce it and force it passed the Lords straight to King Chuckles the HoL lost their power to veto legislation over a century ago

  10. ignored the experts on this as per usual, well done.

    state sanctioned murder , the new normal

  11. Those who are against this are likely one-dimensional thinkers with absolutely no faith in beurocracy.

    My 54 year old mother is one of them, and this is what she has said to me just last night;

    “They just want to get rid of us old people, I won’t let them kill me!”
    “They already have end of life pathways, just pump them full in morphine and they might be okay again in two weeks.” 
    “There’ll be no hope anymore!” 

    Well, I’ll say here what I said then. Assisted dying, such as in DIGNITAS, is only for people who have such a poor quality of life and absolutely no hope of recovery. It is a last, final plea, for ending suffering. There are numerous processes, checkboxes and pyschological examinations that those wishing for assisted dying must pass. 

    I proposed the hypothetical of someone diagnosed with a deadly brain tumor that is inoperable. They have no hope. They, if they continue to live, will slowly lose themselves. Their personality. Control over all their bodily functions. Memories. Morphine cannot help as they die an excrutiatingly painful (physical and mental) death. While they are still mentally sound, knowing what befalls them, how could they not want to be put out of their misery? I know I would. They are humans. They have the capacity. We should help them.

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