As MPs prepare for the final decisive votes this Friday on one of the most consequential laws of our generation, an act that could determine a person’s right to live or die, they should take time to consider the fundamental flaws in the bill that have been exposed during the debates of recent months.
For it has become clear that whatever views people hold on the principle, passing the terminally ill adults (end of life) bill into law would privilege the legal right to assisted dying without guaranteeing anything approaching an equivalent right to high-quality palliative care for those close to death.
