RightsEnded 12 Sept
Should assisted dying be legalised in England and Wales?
Yes 55%No 45%785 votes cast
Assisted dying remains illegal in England and Wales, carrying a potential 14-year prison sentence for anyone who assists. On 11 September 2026 MPs voted 286 to 270 against the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill at second reading. The bill would have allowed mentally competent adults with fewer than six months to live to request medical assistance to end their life after approval by two doctors and an expert panel.
46 Opinions
“Tell a Surgeon he can amputate your leg and he’ll spend all night sharpening his hacksaw.”
Yes. But the assisted dying bill put to parliament was not fit for purpose and was rightly rejected. I would support a better drafted piece of legislation
Anyone who has stood by the bedside of a dying loved one and watched a painful departure, wishes passing could be made easier. So assisted dying makes sense. However, controls also need to be put in place to safeguard people and protect them.
But with greater controls in the last bill.
As long as you the individual have the choice and nobody else and it is to shorten your death (not take a life where you don’t have a terminal diagnosis) I am all for you having that option
We have already had the medical profession quietly killing people off with the Liverpool pathway. The survivors of that tell of the excruciating pain of being denied water. We have seen where this leads in Canada with teenagers being euthanised for depression. The last thing we need is legislation that would eventually be used to cull the old and infirm.
Doctors caused this problem by refusing to prescribe enough painkillers post-Shipman in case they were accused of manslaughter, and refusing to euthanise in case the family sued and because some doctors don't like the idea of doing it. Assisted dying is conversion therapy for suicide, just to make things easier for doctors. Just make doctors do what they used to do - prescribe pain relief, if necessary to the end.
Labour deceitfully used Private Members Bill route to force a genocide bill through with few if any safeguards. Leadbetter in my opinion is an evil person, a liar & immoral. She promised everything then resiled on all points one after another. Faulkner’s threatening & shockingly arrogant & sinister behaviour in Lords demonstrated the desperation that Labour wanted a ‘killing’ bill on the statute book, already have right to murder full term babies. Satanistic is the only word.
yes but with extreme caveates that are ensures that once it is safe after deep debate and research it is then not able to be legislated by any future government beyond what it weas intended for. We can be kind, we can be empathetic, and we should try better to ensure comfort. But governments have proved time and time again to not legislate properly, and this particular case its essential.
Yes, but only for those who are terminally ill.