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MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate

www.bbc.co.uk Assisted dying vote live updates: MPs vote in favour of historic bill after emotional debate

The bill passes the first stage in the Commons but will be followed by months of parliamentary activity before it becomes a law.

Assisted dying vote live updates: MPs vote in favour of historic bill after emotional debate

Some progress, finally.

Edit: for the benefit of the tinfoil hat wearers, assisted dying is not the same as euthanasia.

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Well, that's one way to reduce, to quote Sir Starmer, "the benefits bill blighting our society".
- If you think offering people with less than 6 months to live a way to die painlessly and with dignity is actually a conspiracy to mass-murder everybody on benefits, then you are a fucking lunatic.
  You can take issue with the bill without spinning some conspiracy theory about Starmer wanting to bring about a second Holocaust.
- Thats incredibly crass and you should be ashamed of yourself
  
  The truth is often crass.
  
  The restrictions are pretty reasonable. The obvious “risk” of abuse is that this is a slippery slope and both the rules get relaxed and the safeguards lose their funding and attention over time, but the chance of that happening increases over time, there’s no way in hell they’ll be making a dent in the benefits bill for the next few years.
  So I don’t think your suggested link between this and the current governments goal of reducing benefits is the truth, or even particularly credible.
  Maybe there will be problems in 20 years, it’s certainly a reasonable fear and I don’t blame anyone who argued against it to avoid that risk, but I can’t seriously believe that anyone thinks the government is going to use this to start killing off benefit claimants in job lots.
  Tldr: your ”truth” is a pretty dumb take

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