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Consultation on assisted dying for those with terminal illness.

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anyolddinosaur · 02/01/2023 16:23

The Health and Social Care Select Committee has announced that it will be undertaking an inquiry into assisted dying. The Committee is a cross-party group of MPs who scrutinise health and social care policy. As part of this inquiry, it has opened a public consultation to take into account public opinion on this issue. It' asks just 6 questions, although you can expand on your answers.

Did you know about this? Have you made your views known? You can complete it until Friday 20 January 2023

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XenoBitch · 24/01/2023 19:02

Suzi888 · 24/01/2023 18:54

Read this today - was posted by someone on another thread.

www.dignityindying.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/DiD_Inescapable_Truth_WEB.pdf

I don’t know why people are so against assisted dying. It sounds to me as though you would be terminally ill, in a hospice, dying and suffering pain before it would be considered in any case. I don’t think it covers dementia (which in my opinion is a shame).

Instead of laying there writhing in agony, vomiting your own faeces, your rotting tumours creating a stench, you simply die a few days before all that happens. No one dying in a hospice walks away. It’s end game. It just depends how long you want to suffer and how broken you want your loved ones to be after watching you die an undignified death.

It’s not about putting down/getting rid of disabled people. Or accessing your inheritance early by pushing off aunty Betty years earlier than she would naturally die. There seems to be a lot of fear that it can be abused.

I read this too. Some really sad and awful stories in it (warning - it is a very difficult and graphic read). You can understand why some relatives come away from witnessing a death and the lead up to it, absolutely traumatised. It is not just peacefully falling asleep and everyone singing around the bedside.
With assisted dying, that could be something to actually aim for. Assisted dying will allow people to have a 'good' death.

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