Appointed by Starmer is bad enough but do you really think someone appointed by Farage wouldn't turn a blind eye to cases where maybe that pesky disabled person didn't really want to die?

How do you determine when someone is terminal? As the bill stands someone who is starving to death due to anorexia would qualify, but they could get better. What about doctors who want to save resources changing prognoses?

The principle is good but the reality is the bill doesn't hold water

These things don't go together really but here we are. Freelancing is crackers and only more so when you're an advocate

The bill and the accompanying impact assessment spend more time talking about ensuring disabled people have equal access to medical suicide than they do worrying about institutional or familial coercion, btw

Should've fired McSweeney months ago but if ever there was a time

This is very useful because these are also my criteria! Why must everything be violent

All this does is encourage pity and an old medical model of disability

It does nothing to challenge the social and political reality of disability or to get people to listen to... actual disabled people

I am so bored of this stuff

I think people in need of assisted dying legislation have been let down by their advocates. This has been a rushed and damaging process. I’m not sure you can reasonably blame a bill’s opponents for the shortcoming of your own process. It’s all a bit of a sad mess. 7/7

I'm so sorry

Honestly this whole debate has broken my heart so many times that it's fundamentally changed me as a person and yet people around me are still going 'wait but isn't it a good thing to end suffering?' as if we exist in a world of perfect equality and good intentions. It makes me feel crazy