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Canada’s assisted-dying law has expanded since 2016. What can England and Wales learn about safeguards, eligibility and social pressure?
There are said to be around 200 MPs who are willing to reintroduce it as a private member’s bill.
Peers would be on dicey political ground if they tried to stop the bill passed by MPs – but they may run into problems over timing.
I’ve seen just how deeply people are affected when asked to contemplate their future – or the future of someone they love.
The assisted dying bill faces tough questions, but includes arguably stricter safeguards than existing end-of-life laws.
Legalisation is not yet a done deal. Here are the challenges the bill could face in the House of Lords.
Legalising assisted dying is one thing. Funding, staffing, medication, legal oversight – those are the real tests.
MPs will soon vote on Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying bill. Analysis of the second reading shows how religion, identity and party shaped support and opposition.
The bill passed its second reading by a large majority but things get far more complicated from here.
‘Coercion isn’t as bad or as problematic as is made out.’ A philosopher explains why.
There are other end-of-life decisions that are highly controversial yet lawful.
This process is ill-equipped to deal with such consequential issues.
In our interviews with older people over the past 15 years, some have described the phenomenon of ‘tiredness of life’ in a matter-of-fact way – as though they are talking about the weather.
Some argue safeguards might be difficult to apply in practice.
The High Court would never get through the backlog of cases, even in the best case scenario.
The distress experienced by people near death is not limited to pain caused by illness or disease. Our research sheds light on the economic and political reasons dying is much harder for some.
Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying bill has the personal support of the prime minister but the road ahead is fraught.
Choosing to hasten one’s death is an intensely personal, carefully considered decision. But it is rarely made in isolation.
Terminally ill patients who seek an assisted death have no desire to end their life. Calling their decision ‘assisted suicide’ can have harmful consequences.
Top contributors
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Senior Lecturer in British Politics, Queen Mary University of London
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Associate professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Supportive and Palliative Care, Lancaster University
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Distinguished Professor, Professor of End-of-Life Law and Regulation, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Law, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Law, Lancaster University
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Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer in Social Science, University of Glasgow
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Professor of Healthcare Law, University of Southampton
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Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Emory University
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, Brandeis University
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Associate Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, University of Reading
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Lecturer in Law, Keele University
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Lecturer in Medical Law and Ethics, Keele University
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Adjunct Professor, Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington and Auckland University of Technology, Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University