MPs Set to Vote on the Assisted Dying Bill Today

[@Laura-s3x6k]

How do doctors know who has 6 months. Husbands grandma was given last rights at birth, she lived to 81 yrs.

[@suesanbooth6739]

My husband was in agony for 7wks, no palliative care or proper pain relief,,i think he was neglected, no empathy at all from any of the medical staff

[@Sodoff-c2b]

So sorry. God bless you

[@aethellstan]

my body, my life, my choice.

[@dianecameron137]

can it be made any more clearer that it is for people that have 6 months and are at the very end of treatment not the disabled

[@anilasharma2371]

Who can say you only have six months? I am living with incurable cancer , I should have been long gone . By the grace of god I am hanging on to spend a little longer with loved ones.

[@kevingardiner1619]

This is great news for you that you've managed to outlive your diagnosed time limit . And may you continue to live alot longer, but doctors in most cases, would know when a patient had reached their final phase of their terminal illness. The fact that the doctors would have to get the permission from a high court judge to put their patient on this 6 months path with an assissted death. No patient will be put on end of life assissted death without their verbal conscent. And the mentally ill cannot ask for assisted death as their condition is not terminal. Loads of safe guards so far, but the bill will be tightened so that nobodies life is terminated against their will. This bill will be scrutinised and ammended in the next two years before it's put to the final vote to put it into law.

[@chrysalis4126]

That's great, I'm hoping I will last longer than usual with my stage 4 cancer too but when I do get close to the end if I'm in pain that can't be controlled or, as a fellow sufferer I know is, being put in a nursing home with mainly dementia patients, liquid stools constantly leaking from both ends which is distressing and debilitating, being told they will probably last another three months then I would like the choice to shorten that period.

[@Jp67-n6b]

I am stage four lung disease, my son is in bits. He looks after me for a couple of days at a time, I am getting worse, my death is going to be one of the worse ways to die and he will witness this, forever etched on his mind. If I was able to prevent him seeing the last six months of my life I would. I have promised him I won’t end myself by suicide.

[@ryansweeney1661]

It must be awful in your situation, and I couldn't imagine it But suicide is your decision, If you can not take the decision for suicide, then what's the difference in the assisted dying Look at Canada to see why people have concerns about this decision It's horrendous, My mum died slowly and badly, and it was horrible So I completely understand people want this law, but it leads to other ways of assistance to death like homeless people and mentally ill people, So there's a case it should never be legal because of the way it gets handled, like in Canada, which we will follow Canada So i know this message is a bit full on, but if you want to avoid your family seeing you at a point where that's what they will remember, then that is your decision I feel for you and your family None of this is your fault, but you are still in charge of you I wish you all the best

[@Jp67-n6b]

@ thanks you for your reply, I do agree with most of what you are saying. I won’t end it myself as I can see the hurt my son will feel. Having had two suicides within my family I know the hurt and ruined lives it leaves behind. It’s hard enough getting a sleeping tablet in the uk, I expect the MPs to be extra tough.

[@ryansweeney1661]

​@Jp67-n6b Hello, thanks for responding, I'm certainly not saying commit suicide but I was just saying it's your decision Go all the way and fight as long as possible But after watching my mum and knowing what I know about the nhs I completely understand not wanting to go through the last few months Which ever way it is done and If I'm ever in that position I'll not spend last few months in a hospital But if I had to vote I'd vote on not passing the law based on it, being a gateway to other people getting assistance to die Just know this , losing you for your son will be awful and one of if not the worst experience of his life and it doesn't matter if it's assistance or not it'll still be horrible So I know it's hard but take whatever decision you think is right 😊

[@Jp67-n6b]

@@ryansweeney1661 having lost my mum in 2014 whilst living in Australia, and dropping everything and rushing back, she passed from a massive heart attack, I know how heart wrenching it is to loose a mother. I do think from experience from the suicides in my family, have affected a wife and children who still suffer from the consequences of suicide. A death from illness somehow is easier for family to cope with, if that makes sence. I keep positive and still enjoy life. All the best Ryan 😊

[@ryansweeney1661]

Yeah it makes sense 😊

[@vp272]

The male host is so much better than Richard, Adil, Martin and Robert! Please consider him as the regular

[@cherylsapcote7327]

She is so right. The bill is problematic, and there is also not enough decent hospice care either.

[@malicant123]

I understand why people may be upset by this, but they need to understand something; for a lot of people life is just NOT good. Indeed, for many, it's positively miserable. If someone no longer wants to be here, they should have the option of a dignified and peaceful way out. Hopefully this is eventually extended to all who want to leave, but this is a good first step.

[@briankerrison8504]

It an option & a kind one..🤔

[@catherinelee-h2c]

Its a very very difficult subject

[@QED777]

We should ask Doctor Harold Shipman what he thinks ( just a thought )

[@kevingardiner1619]

The 6 months left before when death would naturally occur is not set in stone. This 6 months time frame that;s set out in this first stage bill is not set in stone either. Each persons journey in their terminal illness is unique to that one person, but the doctors know when an illness has reached it's final phase as it were, then they can apply the 6 month rule from that point. Till that point is reached, no doctor can start the clock ticking for any patient. Disabled people are safe and cannot be put on end of life journey if they are not terminally ill. And especially when the disbled patient cannot give conscent or have enough mental capacity to understand. The same rules apply to all adults over the age of 18. No children can have assisted dying aplied to them.

[@peeg09]

Should always be seperate from hospitals.

[@ilyasVa]

Madness!✌🏼❤️

[@apollonia6656]

Keep on deleting !

[@SimonSmith-yd6tt]

if your comment is appropriate for The Daily Mail you should be safe if not, it will be deleted

[@anilasharma2371]

Each and every person is an individual with different types of illnesses, many can cope better than others ? some can't take it especially if there is no quality of life left for them , some are alone struggling to juggle to move ,eat , drink or take medicine the basic requirements.

[@anneatkinson3077]

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