Assisted dying bill passed.

If they were allowed to give as much morphine as the patient needed to be rid of the pain at end of life, the patient could control that themselves. At its best palliative care can be pain free, but if you watched the tv programme last night and saw how devastating cuts has resulted in one hospice getting rid of 23 highly qualified palliative care nurses. The conclusion was by the experts its a post code lottery how you die. Its cheaper to get rid people.

I’m of the mind that I’m pleased people are being given the choice, but I feel very strongly that care and in particular palliative care should be top class before I would consider choice to be absolutely in a proper balance.

I’m with you on this twinnytwin as are an awful lot of GP’s.

If it gets passed onto the statue books, the relationship between doctors and patients will be irrevocably changed for ever.

I'm one of the "slippery slope" brigade and honestly feel that life as we know it will change irreparably should this actually go though, which we're told it probably will. Sad, sad day.

I'm glad it passed and hope they get it done but with cast iron fail safe in place. I've heard people say if palliative care was better this wouldn't be necessary but that is not always the case. I lost my Dad in 2019, he was mid 80s with terminal cancer and alzheimers and went into a lovely care home for end of life care when we were told he had a few days up to a week left to live. His death dragged on for almost 12 weeks and was horrendous for him, and awful for the family to watch him deteriorate slowly over a prolonged period. Apart from morphine and calming drugs there was little anyone could do for him.
Before he lost capacity some 6 months earlier he had had enough and was often upset saying if he were a dog they'd put him out of his misery .. he was diagnosed and had major surgery 8 years before this which left him in a less than ideal position.
I know if he had the option to end it sooner he would have. Even the nurses that cared for him agreed his death was not dignified

Oh, thank goodness for that. What a relief (for now). Common sense and compassion have prevailed.

I won't have to pack my bags and emigrate to Canada.

There's a long way to go yet before it become law. I just wish we could have a similar law here in Scotland.