Assisted Dying

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I dont know what section to put this in. Im more upset about the vote for it than I thought I'd be. I feel like we have crossed a rubicon somehow.

I agree.

Yes I feel very upset by it.

May I ask what do you not agree with in terms of assisted dying?

I think it’s a great step forward personally and long overdue

I am so relieved. I am so grateful assisted dying should be there if I or a loved one needs it.

I cried with relief.
My family suffer from inherited Motor Neurone Disease. The knowledge that I potentially won’t have to suffer the way I’ve seen relatives do is life changing.

Yes, I feel the same. It's quite scary. Although I do sympathise with the reasons people support it I think it's a really worrying path to start down. I'm yet to see any country really implement it in the way we're all told it will be, once you dig a bit there are awful stories from all these places.

I am pleased.

I agree with assisted dying, I don't trust it to be carried out ethically.

What is it that is upsetting you? I am interested in this perspective, I suppose because mine differs.

I do personally think this is a positive thing - the suffering that is associated with some terminal illnesses is so dreadful, I think it is right that those who are suffering are given the right to choose.

I agree with it, we treat animals better than humans.

I'm really pleased having watched love ones have a difficult death. Polls have shown about 7 out of 10 people are in support of assisted dying, so I think it's right that Parliament acknowledged this in the way they voted.

Absolutely this.

We put animals down for fairly non serious illnesses. Incontinent, euthanise them.

At last sensibility.

This is so very overdue and now being properly brought to the fore.

I am relieved it’s a yes at this stage. Now begins the next stage, let’s hope that those involved will champion this.

I am relieved.
The prospect of a protracted painful death terrifies me.
Dignitas would otherwise have been the plan.

I feel like this is almost a natural outcome of the increase of individualism in our country.
'I want to be able to have a doctor help me die if I want to, and I don't care if that puts you at risk'.
This puts vulnerable and disabled people at risk, what does that say about us as a country?

I'm pleased it's passed the first hurdle.

The UK absolutely has crossed a Rubicon.
awful, awful day 😞

A parent was put on the Liverpool pathway for a week. I know it's not the same as someone committing suicide by taking a tablet but it was the worst thing you can imagine and I still feel guilt. The nurses knew my parent was going to die but they had no private rooms so he was on a ward. Liquids were withheld to hasten his death but a nurse left a waterjug next to his bed which he was too weak to reach so it was torture. I have no faith that the NHS will be able to carry out assisted dying in a humane way. They don't have the resources. It might not be at home with family round your bedside. It might just be a pill on a ward and you'll be desperate enough to take it.

The state should not be killing innocent people no matter how much they want to die. I didn't realise I thought this way actually but I really really do. It's a personal reaction I think ..there's no easy right or wrong answer.

I am hugely relieved. The state has no right to tell me (or anyone) that I should not be allowed to end my own life at a time of my choosing. Death is absolutely not the worst thing that can happen to a person - we all need to understand that.

You are allowed to end your life at a time of your choosing now!

I am very pleased. People with life ending degenerative diseases should not have to plan to go to Switzerland before they’re really ready in case they can’t later, and to have to have funds to do so, is not compassionate. It’s like abortion, if you don’t agree with it, dont use it.

This is horrific.
God have mercy on us 😢

I'm sorry your parent was so unwell. The 'Liverpool pathway' didn't involve removing fluids to hasten death. Fluid refusal is a normal part of the dying process, and giving fluids when a patient is too unwell to process them can lead to aspiration pneumonia and fluid imbalances.