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Wen<p>Assisted dying - a tool for oppression</p><p>Of course it can be which is why we need safeguards. But in reality these religious morons want to take control of others lives. This is just a smokescreen. As someone directly concerned with an about the freedom of people to determine their own path and with someone dying painfully from an untreatable illness I bitterly resent and can say I HATE the fekkers attitude.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/06/assisted-dying-could-become-tool-to-harm-women-in-england-and-wales-say-faith-leaders" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/society/2025/a</span><span class="invisible">pr/06/assisted-dying-could-become-tool-to-harm-women-in-england-and-wales-say-faith-leaders</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AssistedDying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AssistedDying</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Hypocrites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hypocrites</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Religion</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/HateNotLove" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HateNotLove</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/UKpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKpol</span></a></p>
Wen<p>Voices that oppose the assisted dying bill aren’t ‘noise’. They are vital scrutiny</p><p>While I agree with the title, much of the 'argument' in this piece is flimsy and ill considered. From (a lay persons), point of view the safeguards appear reasonable and practicable. Opponents of the bill are determined to kill it off with poor scaremongering if necessary.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/16/voices-that-oppose-the-assisted-dying-bill-arent-noise-they-are-vital-scrutiny" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2025/feb/16/voices-that-oppose-the-assisted-dying-bill-arent-noise-they-are-vital-scrutiny</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AssistedDying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AssistedDying</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/UkPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UkPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScareMongering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScareMongering</span></a></p>
Beverley<p><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/broadwaybabyto.bsky.social/post/3lc4jewqdfk2t" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsky.app/profile/broadwaybabyt</span><span class="invisible">o.bsky.social/post/3lc4jewqdfk2t</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/AssistedDying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AssistedDying</span></a></p>
Alex P Roe<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ChrisMayLA6</span></a></span> I have dystopic visions of a <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/future" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>future</span></a> where <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/governments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>governments</span></a> insist on the “assisted dying” option for the good of society for those who haven’t managed to set enough side for their pensions. The situation in the UK and elsewhere may be the first step. <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/dystopia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dystopia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/assisteddying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>assisteddying</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>society</span></a></p>
Emeritus Prof Christopher May<p>So for those of you not in the UK &amp; perhaps thinking its all over &amp; we now have a law that will allow assisted dying.</p><p>here is a guide to what happens next.... there's a few bumps in the road yet.</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/assisteddying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>assisteddying</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/29/what-happens-next-assisted-dying-bill" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/society/2024/n</span><span class="invisible">ov/29/what-happens-next-assisted-dying-bill</span></a></p>
Emeritus Prof Christopher May<p>So MPs have voted to allow the assisted dying bill to progress.... now there is the long hard slog through the legislative process, allowing opinion on both sides to continue to try and shape the bill &amp; the safeguards - will be interesting to see how this shapes up &amp; who is playing the long-game of influence &amp; who now moves on to other things (here I'm thinking primarily of the media's short attention span).</p><p>Hope something balanced &amp; sensible emerges from scrutiny.</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/assisteddying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>assisteddying</span></a></p>
Kriszta Satori<p>UK MPs vote in favour of allowing assisted dying after emotional Commons debate<br><a href="https://journa.host/tags/BBCNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBCNews</span></a> live page <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c99rzxlv99et" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.co.uk/news/live/c99rzxlv99</span><span class="invisible">et</span></a><br><a href="https://journa.host/tags/AssistedDying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AssistedDying</span></a></p>
Jules<p>The best thing I've read on <a href="https://social.coop/tags/AssistedDying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AssistedDying</span></a>, from Frances Ryan.</p><p>"The truth is, there are no goodies or baddies here. There are just human beings – some of them in pain, scared or angry – trying to do right by themselves, their loved ones and their community. Life is not easy. It is messy – a flawed and blind pursuit to do our best amid the darkness and the doubt. There is no reason we should expect matters of death to be any different."</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/29/assisted-dying-bill-debate-uk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2024/nov/29/assisted-dying-bill-debate-uk</span></a></p>
Emeritus Prof Christopher May<p>Today is the Assisted Dying bill vote in the House of Commons; the debate has been emotional &amp; seen both sides mobilise personal stories to try to shift the debate in their direction.</p><p>While the vote may be too close to call, its likely that this debate will continue either formally as the bill proceeds, or less formally as its supporters seek to regroup &amp; figure out how to get it back onto the legislative agenda.</p><p>One thing the debate may have done is clarified things for many</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/AssistedDying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AssistedDying</span></a></p>
Lore and Ordure<p><strong>Thinking About (Assisted)&nbsp;Dying</strong></p><p>When I was really very young – no more than five or six years old – my Grandma, then a sprightly little silver-haired woman in her late sixties, made me make her a promise: That if, when she got older, she ‘went <em>ga-ga</em>‘ or ‘lost her marbles’, I would ‘bump her off’, and ‘put her out of her misery’. It was a promise she reminded me of periodically over the following years. Her greatest fear was losing her identity, her capacity – her very self – to dementia, as she had seen happen to others.</p><p>Not much more than a decade after this, she died, confused and disorientated, having been unable to recognise me, her own children, or her other grandchildren, for the previous couple of years. Her worst-case scenario made real. Obviously, there was nothing I could have done to fulfil my promise. For all that it wasn’t exactly made freely, or from a place of informed consent, the fact that neither I, nor anyone else, could help spare my Grandma from her worst fear at the end of her life has haunted me.</p><p>In the UK, we’re talking about assisted dying again, as legislation that would allow terminally ill people to choose to die by self-administering medication under clinical supervision is about to be brought before Parliament. It’s not the first legislation of its sort that has been brought, and previous efforts to decriminalise medically assisted suicide in the UK have failed to pass. The mood music seems different now; who knows, it may be the time.</p><p>Eight years ago, more or less a decade into my career in veterinary practice, my Dad died from an aggressive form of T-cell Lymphoma. I was with him, at home, when he passed away. (The incredible haste with which he was discharged from hospital with little more than a community DNR form in his hand, and the lack of appropriate support for this, when he expressed a preference to die at home rather than on a ward, is beyond the scope of this piece really: but suffice to say I have never seen the NHS move faster to do anything, ever). In his final few days, he was in a terrible state, unable to eat or drink, distressed and upset and confused and undoubtedly in pain (not to mention horrifyingly thirsty).</p><p>If I allowed one of my veterinary patients to die like that, I would be struck off (and rightly so).</p><p>His final few hours, thankfully, were calmer, greatly eased by the care of a wonderful Macmillan nurse (and the great big carrier bag of end of life medication prescribed for this occasion by his GP).</p><p>This has always seemed to me a straightforward matter of personal choice – of basic bodily autonomy, in fact. I should not – no one should – be required to continue to live if life is unbearable (that notion is outrageous!). In the event I am unable to take the necessary steps to end it quickly and efficiently by my own actions, help should be available (as it should be if I were unable to perform any other basic and necessary task).</p><p>But.</p><p>I have listened to disabled and chronically ill friends (and joined their community myself in the past couple of years). I have paid attention to how these systems work in countries that have already implemented assisted euthanasia programmes. I am well aware of the absolutely abysmal state of social care and palliative care in this country. And despite the fact that I still, viscerally, feel that this is a choice *I* would want for myself, I’m genuinely ambivalent about whether I believe a system can be created that doesn’t – by intent or omission – create perverse incentives. In our existing situation in the UK where good quality, humane end of life care is a luxury available only to the very wealthy (and to a lucky but tiny minority who are able to access hospice care), I think the creation of such incentives is almost inevitable.</p><p>This has been widely discussed already, and I have little new to add here beyond an abiding feeling of discomfort.</p><p>I do, however, have a personal perspective to bring to bear, and it’s one that I’ve rarely heard in this conversation. A medical doctor, in a TV Vox Pop, said “I trained to be a doctor to save life, not take it.” As veterinary surgeons, euthanasia is an essential part of our toolkit. I have brought many lives to an end. You may not think animal lives are remotely equivalent to human ones – but if you have loved pets of your own you will know how profound and important those relationships can be. For many people (including me) pets are family – for some, their only family. The death of a beloved pet can be just as important and traumatic a bereavement as the loss of a close human family member.</p><p>Just like doctors, I am caring not just for the dying patient but also for their human family. The emotional intensity and complexity around deciding to end the life of a dearly loved pet is one that many of us have experienced for ourselves. As a veterinary surgeon, I am not merely there as euthanasia technician but as clinical advisor, advocate for the patient’s welfare, and frequently as mediator between the differing opinions of the humans who love them.</p><p>I have some now well-rehearsed answers that I trot out when one of my more empathetic clients says, often through their tears, “Gosh, this must be hard for you, too.”</p><p>“Well,” I say, “obviously it’s no one’s favourite part of the job. But I’m not emotionally attached to them the way you are, so it’s easier to see things clearly, to know that it’s the right thing to do, with a bit of distance.”<br>“It’s a blessing, really,” I say, “it’s an incredible privilege to be able to spare our patients from distress and suffering, to release them from pain and let them pass away peacefully.”<br>“I don’t know how human doctors do it,” I might add, depending on the client, “it must be awful not being able to spare their patients, in the end.”</p><p>And they nod, reassured, I hope, and I tell them again how sorry I am for their loss, that it was the right time, and that this moment, today, awful as it is, isn’t what they’ll remember, in the end. That stronger and happier loving memories will stay with them.</p><p>I don’t tell them that every single one of these moments extracts a cost. That having a front-row seat – a starring role – at one of the worst moments in peoples’ lives, helping to manage their distress while also managing the practical aspects of administering IV medication to patients who are often confused, distressed, dehydrated, in poor cardiovascular status, is not merely technically challenging but requires a degree of compartmentalisation and self-management which is both difficult and, cumulatively, undoubtedly pretty unhealthy. Ask any veterinary surgeon you know well enough, and they will tell you some of their nightmare stories of euthanasias gone wrong – the memorable, horrifying, and often dangerous events when things don’t go to plan. But for me at least, even the calmest, most straightforward, most necessary and appropriate (not too early, not too late) euthanasia comes with a measurable personal price.</p><p>I am steadfast in my belief that euthanasia in veterinary practice is an essential part of the toolkit, one of the most powerful things I can do as a practitioner to relieve suffering and distress.</p><p>But.</p> <p><strong><em>Lore and Ordure is a digital busking project supporting my PhD work –<br><a href="https://ko-fi.com/loreandordure" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">if you enjoy what I’m doing here, please throw some money in the hat!</a></em></strong></p> <a href="https://ko-fi.com/loreandordure" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <p><em>This blog only exists thanks to the generous support of my readers, so,&nbsp;<strong>thank you</strong>!&nbsp;</em><br>Your tips and donations support my weekly writing here and contribute towards my PhD expenses.</p><p><em>Please&nbsp;<a href="https://loreandordure.com/subscribe/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">subscribe via email</a>&nbsp;&amp; share my work with others who might enjoy it.</em><br><em>You can make both one-off and recurring donations&nbsp;<a href="https://ko-fi.com/loreandordure" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">on my Ko-Fi page</a></em>.</p> <p>[The header image is a modified version of ‘Houses of Parliament and Elizabeth Tower’ by Flickr user ‘trecca’. 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Peter Nimmo<p>This is an excellent discussion of the problem of legislating to allow assisted suicide:<br>“That’s Death” - by Doug Chaplin - ad imaginem<br><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AssistedDying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AssistedDying</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AssistedSuicide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AssistedSuicide</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Euthanasia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Euthanasia</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/RightToDie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RightToDie</span></a><br><a href="https://substack.com/home/post/p-150808490" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">substack.com/home/post/p-15080</span><span class="invisible">8490</span></a></p>
Emeritus Prof Christopher May<p>So it turns out the Daily Express is very loudly supporting the Assisted Dying bill.... now, I support the bill (as has been clear from my posts over the last days/weeks) but if the Express supports it I now have a slight cause for concern.... what are they seeing that I am not????</p><p>Generally, I expect to find myself on the other side of any issue from the Express.....</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/AssistedDying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AssistedDying</span></a></p>
C++ Wage Slave<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@derekmcmillan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>derekmcmillan</span></a></span> <br>I haven't understood why <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WesStreeting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WesStreeting</span></a> says that <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AssistedDying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AssistedDying</span></a> will cost the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NHS</span></a> money that will have to be allocated from other areas. A huge percentage of healthcare costs are spent on patients in the last year of life — I've seen estimates of almost 25%, but it's bound to vary by country — and a patient who has chosen to die doesn't incur those costs.</p><p>The process of assisted dying itself will cost money for the consultations and the drugs, but will those costs really outweigh the cost of palliative care, even as it exists today? I would have thought that providing top-notch palliative care was the more expensive option.</p><p>My own view is that I'd prefer the option to die peacefully, at a time of my own choosing, and probably at home, if I'm in severe pain or I have a degenerative disease, and I'd also like to be able to write a living will that will end my life if I have dementia that's so severe that I no longer know who and where I am. Once those healthcare resources are no longer doing me any good, why not spend them somewhere more fruitful? But I completely respect the fear that greedy families will nudge older people into ending their lives before their assets get eaten up by nursing home fees.</p>
Derek McMillan<p>How many rich people will be "assisted to die"? How many of us cannot afford expensive private medical care? </p><p>It is a cost-saving exercise. Palliative end-of-life care costs money. Assisted suicide is cheap. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/assisteddying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>assisteddying</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/assistedsuicide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>assistedsuicide</span></a></p>
Emeritus Prof Christopher May<p>A key(&amp; previously under-acknowledged) aspect of the assisted dying debate has become the quality of &amp; access to palliative care for the terminally ill; is a desire to end it all a reflection of a failure on end-of-life care?</p><p>My feeling is it may well be for some, but not all. </p><p>Ideally, I'd like to see a clear voluntary &amp; safe choice for those choosing to exit in a manner (and time) of their choosing;</p><p>But safeguards are key &amp; so clearly is better palliative care.</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/AssistedDying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AssistedDying</span></a></p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>All this talk about 'a slippery slope" with Assisted Dying when during COVID our Government and their billionaire owners couldn't give a fuck over who lived and who died so long as the Economy kept going and Normality was maintained.</p><p>Fuck off, and let us die when WE say, not when YOU say.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ukpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukpol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ukpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AssistedDying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AssistedDying</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/COVID19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COVID19</span></a></p>
Emeritus Prof Christopher May<p>The assisted dying bill has been published.... </p><p>However, one thing immediately strikes me is that if it is limited to people with only six months to live, the time taken to navigate the safeguards may take up a significant portion of their remaining life.</p><p>While I see the need for the safeguards, condemning those who wish to end their lives to a purgatory of bureaucratic process might be regarded as a little cruel (but necessary)?</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/AssistedDying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AssistedDying</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/11/assisted-dying-bills-strict-safeguards-to-include-long-jail-terms-for-coercion" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/society/2024/n</span><span class="invisible">ov/11/assisted-dying-bills-strict-safeguards-to-include-long-jail-terms-for-coercion</span></a></p>
Broadwaybabyto<p>“Some patients are being euthanized while suffering from untreated mental illnesses &amp; addictions. They’re more likely to come from poor areas &amp; be suffering from inadequate housing, lack of social supports &amp; simple loneliness”</p><p>This is why disabled people are screaming about MAiD in Canada. It’s a slippery slope - and we’ve slid too far down. </p><p>Many patients WANT to live and simply can’t access the medical care or social supports they need to survive. </p><p>Wait times for specialists can be 12-18 months (or longer) but you can be approved to die in three. An eye opening article: </p><p><a href="https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/assisted-suicide-is-being-used-to-relieve-people-of-poverty-isolation-and-social-suffering-this/article_656a993e-97a7-11ef-9b7b-4360ce931609.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thestar.com/opinion/star-colum</span><span class="invisible">nists/assisted-suicide-is-being-used-to-relieve-people-of-poverty-isolation-and-social-suffering-this/article_656a993e-97a7-11ef-9b7b-4360ce931609.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/MAiD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAiD</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/euthanasia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>euthanasia</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/assisteddying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>assisteddying</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/eugenics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eugenics</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/ableism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ableism</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disability</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/disabilityrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disabilityrights</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/medicalassistanceindying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>medicalassistanceindying</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>healthcare</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/chronicillness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chronicillness</span></a></p>
Druid 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿<p>A thought provoking article. <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/death" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>death</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/dying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dying</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/suicide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>suicide</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/AssistedDying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AssistedDying</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Huntingdons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Huntingdons</span></a></p><p>BBC News - Law change could stop me dying like my parents<br><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8j7jvj8wxlo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/articles/c8j7jvj8</span><span class="invisible">wxlo</span></a></p>
Emeritus Prof Christopher May<p>While I completely understand that people with various religious beliefs may see assisted dying as against their faith... what possible justification is there for them to think they should fight to stop others having access to such measures.</p><p>Certainly there are concerns about safeguards, but making it a legal is about humanity &amp; personal choice.</p><p>Religion should play no part in policy decision(s); they have no rights over my life/death!</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/AssistedDying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AssistedDying</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/oct/23/muslims-bradford-assisted-dying-bill" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/society/2024/o</span><span class="invisible">ct/23/muslims-bradford-assisted-dying-bill</span></a></p>