The UK Is having an ASSISTED DYING debate. Two thirds support it. Where do you stand?

Sky News ^ | Nov 24 | Sky News

[RandFan]

The last time MPs voted on the question of assisted dying - nearly three quarters were against it.

Nine years later - polling suggests two thirds of the country would back a change in the law.

That ratio is mirrored in the number of cabinet ministers who've so far publicly declared their position, with 10 for and five against (only nine have obeyed the instruction from Cabinet Secretary Simon Case not to get involved).

But the bill's cabinet opponents have made some of the most high-profile interventions in the debate.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting and Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood are the two individuals who would be most responsible for seeing the legislation translate into practical reality for the NHS and court system.

They've raised similar concerns about the safeguards in place around vulnerable patients feeling pressured or coerced into taking their own lives.

[stars & stripes forever]

GOD’s time. Not our time.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-2

For everything there is a season,
a time for every activity under heaven.
A time to be born and a time to die.

[RetiredTexasVet]

I’m all for it in the UK and Canada. Less third world fascists to deal with.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

You want to kill yourself, none of my never mind.

You want to try to force someone else to do it?

Go to hell. Go directly to hell. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.

How dare you put that burden on someone else.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

There was a lady in the Netherlands (I think?) who did not want to die but her doctor decided it was time. The lady was crying and fighting to the point that the doctor asked her children to hold her down while he gave the death shot.

They did. This was about twenty years ago.

That is where this leads.

Once upon a time eugenics was the thing that would lead us to a bright new scientific future. It sounded nice. Lost a lot of popularity after people saw films of the death camps. Because suddenly people saw that bright new scientific future was actually all about killing people.

Same here. They cloak it in a pretty bow but it is really all about killing people.

That is not a good place to go.

[RandFan]

It’s a “free” vote the government will take no position they deem it a matter up to individual members

It’s rare but it happens once every so often

I think the vote will be close

Stay tuned it’s on Friday.