What I think is bleakly funny about the UK’s assisted dying is that hardly anyone in Parliament (I think Richard Burgon is the sole exception) has gone “uh, is this a road we should go down on before fixing social care?”, because everyone knows that ain’t gonna happen.
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Stephen Bush
Indeed. One thing that has been like a missing tooth in the UK debate IMV is a huge amount of largely fact free debate about palliative care, and absolutely nothing about how this would interact with our terrible social care system.
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"At present, 600 terminally ill people kill themselves each year. Those that can afford it go to Dignitas. Often alone and sooner than they might ideally like in order not incriminate loved ones."