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Kill the Bill, not the ill"
Outside, scores of opponents gathered, holding signs reading Today's vote still leaves the question of how this could be implemented in an overstretched and under-funded NHS, social care and legal system,
I know what it means to people. If we hadn't achieved what we achieved today, I'd have let them down,
Since there has been this vote I am wondering whether it means I can say to my family ‘come with me to Switzerland, say goodbye to me there’. Because when they come home again I’m not sure they would be investigated for assisting my suicide.”
I voted against the assisted dying bill, not out of a lack of compassion but because I fear that the law will widen in scope, ... If that happens, the right to die may become the obligation to die."
I will take evidence, written evidence, oral evidence, we'll get a very thorough, robust bill committee there to scrutinize the bill and make it the best that it possibly can be,
she told reporters after the vote on Friday We now have months of further debate and I am hopeful that colleagues who have expressed concerns will either succeed in strengthening the bill to make it safe or they'll conclude they haven't been able to do that and then we can defeat it at the later stage, at third reading,
As this Bill progresses through Parliament, MPs will need to carefully consider how such a change in the law would interact with the NHS and social care
Thea Stein, chief executive of the Nuffield Trust think tank, said As is a matter of public record, the Prime Minister voted for the assisted dying Private Members' Bill
I believe that, where possible, we should prevent suffering,
Like millions of working-class people, her final diagnosis filled her not with a fear of death but a fear of being a burden to her family
He recalled the experience of his mother, writing It doesn't really change my situation because it's going to take probably almost two years for it to change the law, and I'd be astonished if the drug I'm on manages to extend my life that far.
It is a very important next stage and I'm sure it will be taken through very, very carefully because some of the best judicial minds, medical minds and political minds will make sure every detail is right
I listened to the debate and it was very deeply felt,
Voting against it at this stage could close down the debate for another decade
As disabled people, there's
We are the people who protect the most vulnerable in society from harm and yet we stand on the brink of abandoning that role,
Tom vomited faecal matter for five hours before he ultimately inhaled the faeces and died. He was vomiting so violently that he could not be sedated, and was conscious throughout”
Leadbeater gave a terrible example ... while his family pleaded with doctors to help The promised safeguards do nothing to prevent the abuses we've seen in Canada
Veteran Tory MP Sir Edward Leigh said Let’s be clear, we’re not talking about a choice between life or death, we are talking about giving dying people a choice about how to die,
the bill’s main sponsor, Kim Leadbeater, said in the opening speech in a packed chamber
