, Columnist
Britain Is Too Broken to Bear Assisted Dying
The realities of delivering assisted dying services are too complex and demanding for the fragile state to bear.
Supporters of the "Not Dead Yet" campaign, which opposes the Assisted Dying Bill, outside the Houses of Parliament on November 29, 2024.
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The decisions of whether, by what means and in which circumstances an individual should be helped to take their life are among the most profound any nation can make. And these are the quandaries the UK parliament is currently grappling with.
Having voted in principle last summer to introduce assisted dying for terminally ill adults, MPs must now consider how in practice to achieve a system combining compassion with what has been promised as the most “robust” protections “in the world.”