Assisted Dying Bill fails to clear House of Lords

This failure has only one certain consequence: ongoing unwanted suffering for thousands of dying people and their friends and families. The minority of peers who've talked this bill out have guaranteed that suffering will continue for now but the Bill will come back and eventually it will pass.

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill faces its final sitting in the House of Lords. The Bill is now certain to fall, not because of a democratic vote, but because a handful of unelected peers have deliberately and egregiously run down the clock. #AssistedDyingBill 🧵

A small number of Lords are blocking the assisted dying bill from completing its parliamentary journey. The Bill has had a huge amount of scrutiny in the Commons (more than any Government bill) but those opposed in principle are using procedural tactics to block it.

Caller on LBC right now talking about his wife dying (they're discussing the assisted dying bill) and I'm nearly in tears listening to him 💔

Reform the House of Lords - and invest the savings in the hospice movement. The Assisted Dying Bill and a fully-resourced Hospice system should exist side by side.

In principle, I support assisted dying. But DNRs were improperly assigned over 500 times to young people with learning disabilities during Covid. I'm concerned that prejudice & inadequate safeguards could lead to undesired outcomes. @mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk #lbc

MPs have been told they must decide what happens next in the long-running and divisive debate on assisted dying, as an attempt to change the law formally fails on Friday

The Canadian model for assisted dying is used as an example of why this legislation shouldn’t be introduced but surely instead it can be used as a model to avoid?

As the assisted dying bill looks set to ‘run out of time’ today, I am reposting a piece I wrote about my mum’s last year of life.

Fundamentalists against the assisted dying bill fails will be delighted that leaves thousands of wil die in unbearable pain depriving them of their choice. The reality that it's fundamentalist medieval dogma would oppose assisted dying whatever safeguards as they prefer other to die in pain!