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AIBU to see the government vote against assisted Dying, as preventing personal choice in how we might want to die?

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WestisBestt · 19/09/2026 19:17

AIBU to think that the recent parliamentary vote against assisted Dying is a terrible indictment on freedom of choice?

I'm not sorry to say that I won't be sad if those who voted against AD, end up wanting it for their own needs at some point in future.

Again the poorest of people will suffer the most as they can't afford to go to Switzerland. Wealthier people can, if they are able to, and if they choose to.

Just another form state control over our lives - and indeed deaths. What about personal choice?

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AnneLovesGilbert · 19/09/2026 19:41

Suicide is not illegal. And @DoTreadCarefully is absolutely right. Your approach is shared by the architects of a particularly shoddy piece of legislation which was thankfully voted down once the depths of its utter awfulness was widely realised. Plenty of us agreed with assisted death in principle and changed our minds as a result of the recent process. Leadbetter is a ghoul, Faulkner is as bad. Parliament made the right decision and I was hugely relieved.

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WestisBestt · 19/09/2026 19:35

GhoulWithADragonTattoo · 19/09/2026 19:19

The risk of abusing vulnerable people is too great to introduce this.

No. That's an unsupported argument. No empirical evidence to support it.

'A lack of empirical evidence for the slippery slope argument [is] demonstrated by the report of Wels and Hamarat'

Wels J , Hamarat N . Incidence and prevalence of reported euthanasia cases in Belgium, 2002 to 2023. JAMA Netw Open. 2025;8(4):e256841.

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WestisBestt · 19/09/2026 19:33

DoTreadCarefully · 19/09/2026 19:28

I'm not sorry to say that I won't be sad if those who voted against AD, end up wanting it for their own needs at some point in future.

The very fact that not everyone has good intentions towards all their fellow humans is one of the reasons it was right that this bill was defeated.

That you are wishing painful, unpleasant illnesses and a desire for suicide on people because they came to a different conclusion from you about a complex and far-reaching ethical decision really does not speak well of you.

No no - you've just projected. Not unusual, admittedly.

I haven't wished any such thing on anyone, read again. It'll help.

Funnily enough those who have voted against AD HAVE WISHED FOR UNSTOPPABLE 'painful, unpleasant illnesses' on people.

The irony.

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FedUpCelery · 19/09/2026 19:31

Again the poorest of people will suffer the most as they can't afford to go to Switzerland. Wealthier people can, if they are able to, and if they choose to.

But also the poorest people might have chosen euthanasia rather than be a financial burden. A question was asked about this in parliament and it wasn't answered.

DoTreadCarefully · 19/09/2026 19:28

I'm not sorry to say that I won't be sad if those who voted against AD, end up wanting it for their own needs at some point in future.

The very fact that not everyone has good intentions towards all their fellow humans is one of the reasons it was right that this bill was defeated.

That you are wishing painful, unpleasant illnesses and a desire for suicide on people because they came to a different conclusion from you about a complex and far-reaching ethical decision really does not speak well of you.

GhoulWithADragonTattoo · 19/09/2026 19:19

The risk of abusing vulnerable people is too great to introduce this.

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