Assisted Dying Bill tomorrow.

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I really hope this goes ahead.

I'm from a family who die from cancer. It's a genetic thing. Over the years I've watched numerous loved ones die from this cruel and ravaging disease. It has taken a massive toll on us. From PTSD to immense guilt, complicated grief and fear of the future.

Not all of my family would have accessed Assisted Dying, but I know some did want it and requested it in the weeks / days leading to their death. They should have had the option of shortening their suffering. Having witnessed what they went through, I want that option for myself.

I want it for my mother. For the past 20 years she has told me when she wants out and how I will have to help her achieve it. I don't want to. She apologises for putting it on me. She shouldn't have to.

No one will be saved if this Bill is stopped, but fear and suffering will be reduced.

A poll taken at a time when most working people are working? So it would be a fair assumption that the majority of voters might be people not at work for various reasons- retired, too ill for work etc who fear the next step is an extension of the bill for their families and/or the state to wipe them out.

Because what's worse? You not being allowed that choice or someone being forced or coerced into that choice?

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MNs posting here or those posting on the bbc may be certain demographics. Guessing the BBC’s has a wider demographic but no one knows who voted.
A wider voting body with fully available research etc would be interesting

Or the bbc had people with a vested interest repeatedly voting, much like some people repeatedly post the same thing over and over on forums.

The yougov poll is unbiased so the most indicative poll shows that around 3/4 of the public support assited dying.

How did you think they were funded? It is clear you have very limited knowledge of end of life care in the UK.

That's merely numbers game, and the majority are willing to take the risk of being coerced to have the choice.

I knew they were partly funded by charitable donations but not to the extent...it's an absolute scandal

Well I was at work and the whole office voted as we were sitting in the same room.
We do have no work Friday afternoons though
We were watching the live debate …..
Appreciate many will be at work
Also appreciate those that aren’t at work may ( at the moment ) be those more affected by the decision in the nearer future.

I don’t think any of us want to see situations like that. It’s important to remember though that this would apply only to terminally ill people with less than 6 months left. This is not some far-right means to erase grannies and the disabled. There’s a lot of over-reaching and fear-mongering going on out there, and I’m glad parliament saw past that.

Something this big should have had a hell of a lot more public consultation. It's been shockingly rushed.

Now if you agree with assisted suicide, you might think 'well, whatever, I agree with it so I don't care about that'.

But what about the next thing, that you're strongly opposed to, that goes straight to a Commons vote without any real scrutiny of how it'll work?

Agree.
End of life care should be fully funded. It is a disgrace!

This is a sad day for the UK.

Without a doubt vulnerable people will be coerced to submit to the needle, on a promise of “dignity”.
Just awful.

You’re not the thread police to tell anyone what they can and can’t have views about. And that’s a horrible post. You have no idea what’s going in other peoples’ lives.

This is a great day for the UK

Parliament represented public opinion on this matter successfully.

Democracy working.

I don't know if anybody actually watched the debate, but you would have seen that this is gonna take over 2 years.
Because they are going to have to put it into a consultation period where they need to speak to experts and amend stuff.
Then bring it back to Parliament, to be voted again, and to be put into an act. This isn't going to take just a few months, this is going to take years to sort out.

These are the parameters being discussed now...but I don't think it's beyond imagination that they will widen.

It's not being rushed, it's going to take over 2 years of consultations.
And experts before they bring it back to be debated again.

This is a very sad day

Well, I'll tell you what, after listening to the stories today about one gentleman who was a vomiting for 5 hours, straight of his own fecal matter.I'm telling you, now it's not a sad day

Pleased with the outcome of today's vote.

It was a sad day for many when denying Christianity became legal.

Exactly this.
I don't think many people will actually use AD, but the comfort of knowing that its there as an option will be a great relief to many.
If you don’t want to, then don’t. It’s not going to be compulsory!

I don’t get the hysteria around this and the comments about being killed off.

It works in other countries. And from what I have read here it needs permission of two drs and a high court judge, and you have to only have 6 months to live, ( although I am not sure how that would work out as people are told 6 months and are here much longer!)

someone I know looked after her mother who, despite the highest pain relief she could have, screamed in pain every time she was moved, which was needed to stop bed sores, and who wanted to die, why would you put someone through that?

The time I would be concerned is if they start to water the bill down, but I am comfortable with the proposed guidelines at the moment.

More importantly , MPs voted with their heart. They voted remembering the deaths they’ve witnessed.
They didn’t vote with their heads. What’s doctors experiences around death/DNR etc…
They didn’t vite around the profound ethical dilemma that introducing a law that promotes death and suicide will have on society. A huge change from one that has always (until Covid at least) maintained that life was the most important.

This is a law that should have been Gping through a really rigorous process, seeing how complex it is and how deep the implications if it are.

It hasn’t and has been voted on emotion instead. That, in itself, is a really bad move (but perhaps not surprising seeing the way politics has gone)

I was actually shocked how close it was 330 versus 275