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thewayneThe bill passed the Commons 314-291 and now goes to the Lords, and I don't have a clue what happens there.
The bill is fairly simple in operation. If you have a terminal condition and six months to live, you have the right to end your life. Two doctors go before a three-person panel who must approve your application, and that seems to about it. The original legislation had the two doctors going before a judge, fears of further clogging up the judiciary had them change it to the panel. No information on how the panel is constituted.
Canada, Spain, New Zealand, most of Australia, and clinics in Switzerland support assisted dying, along with the USA states Oregon, Washington, and California.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/20/uk/uk-assisted-dying-commons-vote-gbr-intl
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/06/20/1354239/lawmakers-in-britain-narrowly-approve-bill-to-legalize-assisted-dying
The bill is fairly simple in operation. If you have a terminal condition and six months to live, you have the right to end your life. Two doctors go before a three-person panel who must approve your application, and that seems to about it. The original legislation had the two doctors going before a judge, fears of further clogging up the judiciary had them change it to the panel. No information on how the panel is constituted.
Canada, Spain, New Zealand, most of Australia, and clinics in Switzerland support assisted dying, along with the USA states Oregon, Washington, and California.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/20/uk/uk-assisted-dying-commons-vote-gbr-intl
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/06/20/1354239/lawmakers-in-britain-narrowly-approve-bill-to-legalize-assisted-dying
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Date: 2025-06-21 11:08 pm (UTC)https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/maid-access-debate-contentious-1.6300345
From 2024:
https://news.ok.ubc.ca/2024/06/25/nurses-wrestle-with-ethical-questions-on-maid/
https://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/the-passionate-eye/when-it-comes-to-medically-assisted-dying-critics-say-canada-has-left-people-with-mental-illness-behind-1.7368322
From 2025:
https://macleans.ca/longforms/canada-maid-mental-illness/
This is just an extremely limited snapshot, and I have my own concerns and bias on the matter.