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I have read posts from doctors who aren’t happy about being asked, stating it goes against the Hippocratic Oath.

Therein lies a problem. At the moment this Bill is only for cancer patients with a prognosis of less than 6 months to live. It’s not for MND, nor dementia nor any other long term illness. How long before it is tweaked, softened or even encouraged? It is also wrapped up cosily as assisted...

No, I think there are a few who will abstain. It’s a very emotive subject hence why some MPs are using the phrase assisted suicide, rather than assisted dying.

I know of medical staff in the north, who are told to make it difficult to tell parents the sex of the baby when scanning, as daughters weren’t wanted.

That’s my worry. When abortion was legalised in the 60s, it was if the mother was in danger, or the baby had massive handicaps, requiring two different doctors to sign. This was changed gradually over the years. Boiling frog syndrome. Once the door has been opened , it is impossible to shut it.

I have read several comments like this, which was why I used Canada as the example. Everybody agrees dying painfully is appalling but can any law be 100% regulated? Are there enough safeguards for the future?

It’s possible to sign a Do not resuscitate now, before any law change.

Yes you’re right. I’m not having a good day, today.

Palliative care ensures nobody would die in agony from illness. This is why we have hospices.

That is accepted medical practice as is withdrawing treatment. My ex father in law was dying of leukaemia, when he developed pneumonia. The GP came to the house, spoke to the family and said, ‘You do know, I won’t be prescribing antibiotics‘? Everyone was ok with that, and he passed peacefully...

Antenatal is post birth. There are unnecessary abortions, like it or not. It’s a whole different discussion.

It appears that way, at the moment, but exceptions start being made, and then it broadens, as it did in Canada. I can visualise an elderly person, with their own home, ‘being persuaded‘, once diagnosed with dementia. No law is watertight.