MPs vote in favour of assisted dying bill

[Diver Fred]

I am in favour of it as long as the detail of the process is properly thought through and implemented. Quality of end of life care should also be of a high standard for those who don’t want to accelerate the inevitable.

Interesting that:

• the Liverpool Pathway has been mentioned. I’m pretty sure that was scrapped some years ago as it was found to be flawed.
• the Canadian system was covered quite extensively by Sky earlier in the week with a controversial point being that there are moves to extend it to include mental health conditions which I would be against. https://news.sky.com/story/depresse...ted-dying-in-canada-crossed-the-line-13258336

The Liverpool Pathway - best description is here.

I've now seen 2 elder members of my family put on 'Palliative Care' - I'd say it's the same thing Cruel action as the Liverpool Pathway. All the patient gets is some pain killing drugs, possibly some liquid just to moisten their lips whilst they have food withdrawn - in other words they are staved to death. Is that better than being put to death painlessly? In many cases that (seems) to be done to save the carers or nurses from having to keep the patients (and beds) clean cause it's easier than changing nappies on adults.

My wife sat in a hospital with her mother for several weeks whilst the hospital firstly withdrew care, then moved to a care home on 'palliative care' for the last fortnight of her mothers life. Even I had to spend a lot of time either in hospital with the wife and was in the care home for with her for the last few days of the MIL life. It was horrible to see and hear the agony!