if you haven't been paying attention and don't understand what's wrong with this bill please don't comment x

this is the UK. you wouldn't rather be coerced into suicide like our government's doing.

it's still happening in Europe, i'm in the UK

i know, it's one of the reasons i rarely come here, just get lectured by a bunch of yanks who think every tweet is for them

absolutely, the vast majority of the people opposing it are pro-assisted dying in principle but it very much isn't a good idea right now within the context of a government that clearly just wants to kill off people too sick to work

coercing someone into suicide has resulted in prison sentences

hopefully the Lords will put the safeguards back but who knows, disgraceful piece of legislation as it stands

they voted down the safeguard to prevent people seeking euthanasia for financial hardship....while taking thousands of pounds away from disabled people. you see how they're nudging disabled people towards assisted death while removing their ability to live in comfort and dignity?

here are the rejected safeguards (courtesy of eyuplovely on twitter):

if it were true that it was definitely going to be only available to terminally ill people with less than a year to live then everyone would be in favour of it; it's because the government has voted down EVERY safeguard while slashing disability benefits that they're not. context matters