> Palliative care isn't where it needs to be.
But voting against this bill will not improve palliative care. Instead of giving someone a way to end suffering, you force them to suffer what you admit is poor palliative care.
If this bill fails, it won't be replaced by a sudden massive increase in NHS funding or staffing for the terminally ill.
> This bill doesn't have enough safeguards
Bloody hell, it makes you go to a judge and beg for the right to die. Makes you collect two different doctors and plead for them to bless your decision.
I'm not saying there ought to be a suicide booth on every street-corner, but it's my life, and no damned judge has no right to demand I must live.
> None of those doctors have to have been the family doctor.
What if the family doctor is dead? I don't think I've seen the same GP two times in my entire life. They change more often than I'm sick.
I guess I'll have spent longer being sick when the time comes, but this city does not really have family doctors.
> People may feel that to spare their family suffering and anguish they feel forced to choose to die.
So? Isn't that a good reason? Seems like a good reason to me. I'd be mostly sparing myself that pain and anguish but sparing those I love is certainly a bonus!
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