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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,
We should all have the right to a good life and, where possible, a good death.
Labour’s Kim Leadbeater, who tabled the Bill, argues 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 There will be a further opportunity to improve it if we can, and if we can't, then I hope we'll be able to reject it,
Conservative lawmaker Danny Kruger, a leading opponent of the legislation, told Sky News, There's plenty of time to get this right,
she said after more than four hours of often emotional debate in the chamber It will be a very thorough process,
Kim Leadbeater, the Labour lawmaker who introduced the bill, told the BBC, adding 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 The Prime Minister is on record as saying he's not going to say or do anything that will put pressure on other people in relation to their vote.
We are the safeguard, this place, this Parliament, you and me
This Bill will give society a much better approach towards end of life
If this Bill passes, we will have the NHS as a fully-funded 100% suicide service but palliative care will only be funded at 30% at best.”
The Mother of the House told the Commons I watched my partner die in uncontrollable agony and it looks like I'm going to be facing the same future. We need this,
Carruthers, 56, said, as she recalled her partner "screaming in bed" in his final days I'm now terminally ill. I've got a spread to my bones and I've got a fairly good idea of what could happen. It's very frightening,
said Carruthers, from Bath in southwest England I beg them to really consider giving us some dignity,
I’m fortunate because I can afford to go, ... but for all the hundreds of thousands of people in the future who can’t afford that and who want to die in their own homes surrounded by the people they love… they will have the choice if this law is changed and that would be a very good change.”