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BREAKING: The Assisted Dying Bill just passed unopposed its Second Reading debate in the House of Lords.
👏👏👏👏
#YesToDignity
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Assisted dying is set to be legalised in the UK within the next two years.
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BREAKING: President Macron has launched the new French end-of-life care bill, branded as “the biggest societal reform of his second term”. It combines + 1.1 billion € funding for palliative care, as well as assisted dying for terminally ill and mentally competent adults.
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***BREAKING*** - Assisted dying bill to be debated by
@UKHouseofLords
later this year.
@dignityindying
Chair Molly Meacher tabled Private Member’s Bill.
First time PMB debated in Westminster for more than five years.
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“We need to allow patients to say ‘I’m ready to die now, I’ve said my goodbyes, this is just too much for me now.’ ”
Senior GP calls for
@dignityindying
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Fascinating discussion on
#BBCRadio4
#AcrosstheRedLine
Couldn’t agree more that slavish “impartial” debates DON’T always reflect the reality of the case and DO allow a tiny minority to claim 50/50 status. Also
@mrjamesob
deserves a medal.
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How hypocritical of Danny to say he won't stand in the way of Prue going to Switzerland.
So he will allow her to access a choice that's well beyond the reach of most people, but stop any Brit who doesn't have access to £10,000 from being able to have the same choice. 🤔
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Domestic abuse: Killers 'follow eight-stage pattern', study says
“We've been relying on the 'crime of passion, spontaneous red-mist' explanation [of killing] forever - and it's just not true.”
Important development.
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Assisted dying 'could become legal in four years' as UK support grows
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Watershed moment in Lords debate on
@dignityindying
as Law Lords Mance, Etherton and former President of the Supreme Court Lord Neuberger all give their support to Baroness Meacher’s
#AssistedDyingBill
.
#YesToDignity
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It is good to see a palliative care doctor calling for the choice of
@dignityindying
*in addition* to outstanding palliative care.
Dying people should have access to both. In many countries they do. Britain needs to catch up.
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*BREAKING* Dame Esther’s assisted dying petition has smashed its 100,000 signature target in less than a month.
That now triggers a parliamentary debate.
@HoCpetitions
Like Esther, eight in 10 of us agree the law on
@dignityindying
must change.
#YesToDignity
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*BREAKING* The first ever House of Commons inquiry says today that law change is “increasingly likely” across the British Isles.
It’s now a matter of when not if for
@dignityindying
reform. 👏👏👏
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BREAKING: Jersey votes to legalise assisted dying in principle.
👏👏👏
#YesToDignity
In 15 minutes, the States Assembly will meet to continue the debate on whether or not to approve, in principle, assisted dying in Jersey.
▶️ WATCH LIVE at 9:30am here:
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BREAKING: South Australia has become the fourth Australian state to legalise voluntary assisted dying.
After 25 years and 17 bills, SA's Lower House has this morning approved final amendments and ratified the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2020.
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Today is the 60th anniversary of the 1961 Act that bans
@dignityindying
Dying people should not have to suffer at the end of life.
Change is coming.
#LastRights
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BREAKING
@TheBMA
releases largest ever survey of UK doctors’ views on
@dignityindying
Overwhelming support for a change in policy 👏👏👏
#LastRights
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BREAKING: Parliament to debate
@dignityindying
petition on 4 July
2.5 years since MPs last debated has seen dramatic change
👉Progress towards law reform in Scotland, Jersey & Isle of Man
👉BMA dropped opposition
👉ONS released new data
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Dying people should not be forced to suffer as they die.
Thank you
@VictoriaPeckham
for listening to the evidence and for being prepared to change your mind.
#YesToDignity
@dignityindying
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BREAKING: Lord Field of Birkenhead has changed his mind on
@dignityindying
as a result of personal experiences.
Frank Field now supports law reform on choice at the end of life and calls on Parliament to pass the Meacher bill.
#YesToDignity
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Why wouldn’t we try to stop suffering, pain and fear like this?
Of course we should.
#YesToDignity
@dignityindying
@thesundaytimes
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The truth of this nurse’s response to
@matthewsyed
rings out for all to see:
“We owe it to ourselves and to society to change this outdated law.”
@dignityindying
#LastRights
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Falklands become first British territory to vote in support of assisted dying
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.
@PrueLeith
spot on about the inequality in this debate: “I'm not asking Danny to have an assisted death. I'm asking him to let me!"
Lawful
@dignityindying
will change precisely nothing for those who oppose it, but would change everything for dying people who want the choice.
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Brave Richard Selley dies at Dignitas today. It’s appalling he couldn’t have this choice at home.
"It will be too late for me, but I hope that sometime soon people in my position will have the choice to have a peaceful death at a time of their choosing."
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BREAKING: First ever Commons inquiry into
@dignityindying
🙌
This could be a victory for compassion but only if the inquiry puts the voices of those most affected by injustice of current law at its heart: dying people and their families.
#YesToDignity
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* BREAKING* Isle of Man votes 17 to 7 for
@allinson_alex
assisted dying bill.
👏 👏 👏 Members of the House of Keys for listening to the call for compassion from your constituents.
#YesToDignity
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“It’s now clear what we have known for decades that Kiwis want, and have always wanted, the right to die on their own terms,” said Panko.
And us in the UK!
@dignityindying
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Brilliantly put.
One in three Australians and one in five Americans will soon have access to
@dignityindying
plus all Canadians and next year (pending a public referendum) all New Zealanders.
Assisted dying can and should be our country’s next great liberal reform.
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The neurosurgeon Henry Marsh on why assisted dying should be legalised
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Intolerable and inexcusable suffering at the end of life has continued ever since Parliament’s refusal to grasp law reform on
@dignityindying
Powerful advocacy from Baroness Ann Mallieu.
#YesToDignity
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“It is not a choice between improved palliative care and greater choice at the end of life. We need both.”
Molly Meacher on Second Reading of
@dignityindying
bill in the House of Lords today.
#YesToDignity
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“The end was dignified and calm, exactly as Richard wanted. He had taken control of his own destiny.”
“I will continue to fight for the human right of those who are terminally ill to choose how and when they die in Scotland.”
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On our way to the Isle of Man for tomorrow’s landmark vote on
@allinson_alex
assisted dying bill.
Members of the House of Keys please listen to the overwhelming call for change from the Manx people and vote
#YesToDignity
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"Assisted dying is not about giving up. In fact, it's about reclaiming control. It's not about death. It's about dignity."
Time for choice.
#YesToDignity
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“When people are dying anyway and in agony, why should they have a wretched time and their family have to watch?”
Spot on
@PrueLeith
We need to look again at
@dignityindying
as part of good end-of-life care.
#r4Today
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First Westminster debate on assisted dying for two years scheduled for 29 April 🙌
Triggered by
@ERantzen
@Daily_Express
@dignityindying
petition: Hold a parliamentary vote on assisted dying
Petition now over 160K. Sign & share here ➡️
#YesToDignity
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Andrew Mitchell MP spot on in
@thesundaytimes
We must end this unjust, unsafe and uncompassionate ban on
@dignityindying
in the UK.
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My letter in
@ObserverUK
⬇️
Concerns about how to introduce assisted dying safely must be a motivator to get law change right, not a reason to persist with an unsafe, unjust and cruel blanket ban.
#YesToDignity
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“I support this bill because I choose to side with compassion.”
Thank you Baroness Black.
#YesToDignity
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On my way to Westminster for
#AssistedDyingDebate
74% of British public support a parliamentary inquiry on
@dignityindying
Let’s see if MPs are catching up with their constituents.
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On my way to Westminster to explain to MPs, Peers and candidates why we are now at a tipping point for
@dignityindying
campaign.
#YesToDignity
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The support of
@thesundaytimes
is a powerful signal to decision-makers and a watershed moment for
@dignityindying
campaign.
Parliamentarians from all parties and across the UK should take note of the overwhelming call for change.
@assisteddyingST
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The tide has turned in Westminster.
Speakers in support of
@dignityindying
2:1 against opponents of law reform.
Huge support for Health & Social Care Select Committee doing an inquiry.
Enthusiasm for voting on another proposal.
#YesToDignity
#AssistedDyingDebate
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BREAKING: 78% of people who describe their faith as Church of England, Anglican or Episcopal, and more 68% of Roman Catholics say they support
@dignityindying
law reform.
#YesToDignity
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This is brilliant by a palliative care doctor who wants people to have great end-of-life care AND the choice of
@dignityindying
👇👇
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Members of Germany’s parliament propose legislation to allow
@dignityindying
for terminally ill adults once they have received counselling.
So that’s Spain, Austria, Portugal, Germany, Jersey and Ireland all considering end-of-life choice.
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Prime Minister
@RishiSunak
joining
@Keir_Starmer
to confirm he will allow parliamentary time for an assisted dying debate in the next Parliament is a significant breakthrough for
@dignityindying
campaign.
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Next year starts with bills moving forward in Scotland, Jersey and the Isle of Man. I hope that one day, we will look back at 2024 as when the deadlock between the huge public support for reform and Westminster’s inaction was finally broken.
#YesToDignity
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Unanimous in
@thesundaytimes
for reform of our outdated, cruel and deeply unpopular law on
@dignityindying
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The House of Commons doorkeeper in the gallery where
@annwhaley12
and I were watching the
@dignityindying
debate just said to me “the tide is turning.”
Perfect summary of a powerful and moving exchange on why the current law is broken and must change.
#CompassionIsNotACrime
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BREAKING: the blanket ban on
@dignityindying
is unsafe.
@ONS
says terminally ill people’s risk of suicide is more than *DOUBLE* those of a control group.
This evidence goes to the heart of patient safety.
Parliament must urgently examine the impact of the current law.
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“Ageism is one of the last acceptable biases in our culture, but it powerfully intersects with sexism”.
I Am (an Older) Woman. Hear Me Roar.
Thanks
@KZiwica
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It’s wrong that people who are not terminally ill are telling dying people what they can and can’t do.
@sarah_wootton
@dignityindying
Brian Rix changed his mind when he was dying having campaigned against for years.
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"I do understand some don't want
@dignityindying
. They can have their choice. What we want is a choice for all people."
Perfectly put by the inspiring Heather Pratten, who's two sons had Huntingdon's disease.
"If you're in terrible pain, you should have that choice."
Heather Pratten from Rayleigh helped her son Nigel, who had Huntingdon's, to die.
Patron of
@dignityindying
Heather says she agrees with new legislation re assisted dying being discussed in House of Lords today.
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“I would hope everyone could agree that our laws should be based on evidence and informed decisions, not alarmist, unfounded opposition that flies in the face of all the evidence from countries where
@dignityindying
has been legalised.”
👏👏 Henry Marsh
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Campaigners are stepping up calls for assisted dying to be legalised after unearthing shocking findings of end-of-life pain and suffering.
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BREAKING: Irish
@dignityindying
bill defeats Government amendment and passes Second Reading.
Congratulations
@Ginosocialist
👇👇👇
ℹ️ The Dying With Dignity Bill has passed its first formal vote in the Dáil, by 81 votes to 71.
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As a new bill is tabled in the House of Lords, paving the way for a debate in Parliament on the issue, Phil Newby explains why he believes terminally ill, mentally competent adults should have the right to choose when and where they die.
#LastRights
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“It’s important for people to hear us. We are the ones who are dying. We should be the ones who choose how to die.
And it should be allowed in this country. I think it’s really unfair that I can’t do it here.”
Spot on Paola. Time for change.
#RIP
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“If I had known from the start that the option of assisted dying was available to me, I would have felt safe…” Cath Shepheard
Of course some will never want
@dignityindying
for themselves but denying the choice to others who do is cruel.
#YesToDignity
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Appalling inequality of access to assisted dying. Only those who can afford to go to Switzerland can get it.
#simonschoice
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“But the tectonic plates are shifting. 160,000 doctors belonging to the BMA are to vote on ending their union’s long-standing opposition to assisted dying. It cannot be beyond the wit of man....to devise an abuse-proof system.”
👏👏👏
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GPs to be consulted for views on assisted dying
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It was a privilege to campaign alongside Noel.
@dignityindying
is indebted to him for changing hearts and minds across the UK.
Sceptical and determined, he was an iconoclast who brought us closer to having safe, compassionate choice at the end of life.
BREAKING Noel Conway who campaigned to change law on assisted dying dies aged 71
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After 17 bills and 25 years, the determination of hundreds of advocates has paid off.
South Australia is on track to become the fourth Australian state to pass a
@dignityindying
law.
👏👏👏
@gogentle_aus
@primafrankie
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This is the point I wanted to make on
@BBCBreakfast
Assisted dying needs to be a choice for people beyond the reach of palliative care, and everyone would benefit from the honest conversations at the end of life that law change would bring.
Palliative care works for the vast majority of people approaching the end of life, and has been proven to work alongside assisted dying all over the world.
But there is a small but significant minority of people who still face a painful death.
These people should have choice.
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Three years ago today brave Bob Cole had an assisted death in Switzerland. He spent his last months and days campaigning for
@dignityindying
Thank you Bob! Your selflessness will not be forgotten.
@cazkins1
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BREAKING: 3rd British Isles jurisdiction to debate
@dignityindying
78.3% of the Citizens' Panel on Assisted Dying agreed that assisted dying should be permitted.
A panel of islanders has voted overwhelmingly in favour of making assisted dying legal in Jersey.
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A cross-party group of more than 20 MPs calls on the Ministry of Justice to examine the effects of the ban on
@dignityindying
@NickBoles
@karinsmyth
@PaulBlomfieldMP
@oletwinofficial
@vincecable
@SarahChampionMP
@lucyallan
@normanlamb
@CarolineLucas
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Sir Keir: "I personally do think there are grounds for changing the law.”
👏👏👏
Time for change.
#YesToDignity
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“We need to be more open as a society about *how* we can die well. This means not waiting until the last few days before we die. “ Paul Cosford
#RSMDyingForChoice
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Even Italy is discussing the need for assisted dying...despite the Pope’s protestations.
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Dame Prue Leith last night told how she hopes Scotland will ‘lead the way’ in the UK by passing laws on assisted dying.
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It's no longer a matter of if
@dignityindying
will be legalised, but when.
In Keir Starmer’s words, the status quo only “prolongs the agony” for dying people and their loved ones.
Time for change.
#YesToDignity
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“I think the general feeling around the country is that many more people are now in favour of it. I really think you should have the right to.”
Ray Illingworth shows the peace of mind conferred by free & legal
@dignityindying
#YesToDignity
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In the Isle of Man supporting choice and compassion at the end of life. All strength to
@allinson_alex
#YesToDignity
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“The idea of a god who wants us to die in unbearable pain and suffering is not a god I’m inspired by”
@RabbiDannyRich
Danny explains how he believes
@dignityindying
is congruent with the values of
@LiberalJudaism
“The movement is at the forefront of modern liberal debate.”
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It's now time to reform our assisted dying laws, says Justice Minister
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This is what those who stand in the way of law change are prolonging: terminally ill people forced into lonely, suicides, loved ones choosing between breaking the law or seeing them suffer, and outsourcing compassion to another country, only available for those who can afford it.
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Assisted dying bill has been adopted by Italy’s lower house of parliament, meaning the legislation will now move to the Senate.
The bill was approved by 253 votes in favour, 117 against and one abstention.
Italy is moving towards choice in dying!!!
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The wonderful
@SirPatStew
making an outstanding case for
@dignityindying
on
@thismorning
@wee_ellster
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***BREAKING***
Today
@thesundaytimes
launches campaign to support
@dignityindying
law reform.
👏👏👏
@assisteddyingST
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“We choose the way that we want to live. Why can’t we choose how we want to die?”
Good Q Suzie and the answer is because some people fundamentally disagree and want to block anyone having that choice.
All of us
@dignityindying
intend on changing that.
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Today the Sunday Times is launching a campaign to legalise assisted dying in Ireland.
@EndOfLifeIE
@dignityindying
#YesToDignity
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A palliative care doctor with terminal cancer, as well as her patient who has motor neurone disease will ask the South African court to develop the common law to allow for
@dignityindying
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****Voluntary assisted dying is now universal across ALL Australian states****
From today New South Wales allows terminally ill adults to request an assisted death within strict safeguards.
See how much safer, fairer and more regulated Oz law is ⬇️
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Alan Douglas, 75, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in August and was given six months to live by his doctor.
He made the decision that he would do things on his terms.
Appalling that he couldn’t have the choice of
@dignityindying
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Thank goodness for pro-choice allies!
Here’s the wise and indefatigable
@FionaHPatten
who legalised assisted dying in Melbourne, Victoria.
Where Australia leads, the UK will follow.
@dignityindying
@gogentle_aus
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.
@RuthDavidsonPC
points out the imbalance in the
@dignityindying
debate to demonstrators before Second Reading:
“Those who want this are not imposing the same outcome on those who do not. But those who are arguing against are denying others even the choice.”
#YesToDignity
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Former prime minister Helen Clark is encouraging people to vote yes in the upcoming End of Life Choice referendum, telling New Zealanders not to let "fear or misinformation get in the way of compassion"
👏👏👏
@primafrankie
@JessYoungTweets
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“People live longer and they die longer. There is a blurred line between life-extending and death-prolonging treatment.”
Says Dr Catherine Forest
#RSMDyingForChoice
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THE Dying With Dignity Bill 2020 will be debated in the Dail this Thursday.
The bill aims to provide the right to assisted dying for people with a terminal illness.
Great leadership by
@Ginosocialist
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To be clear,
@dignityindying
is calling for a right for dying people to die on their own terms
#imwithnoel
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