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Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading ✅ Ayes: 270 ❎ Noes: 286 The Noes Have it. November 2024 (2nd Reading): Ayes 330, Noes 275. June 2025 (3rd Reading): Ayes 314, Noes 291.

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This was a chance to give people a humane and dignified death, as opposed to, in some cases, suffering in excruiciating agony. The disability charities who opposed this were fearmongering.

Just make it a law that anyone asking for assisted dying must be offered fully funded, high quality palliative care. Unless disabled people have an of life diagnoses they wouldn’t qualify for it.

I'm not 100% across the detail, but I think a lot of the concern comes from the folks who found a DNR note on their records during COVID. Between that and the persistent state attacks on disability benefit I can understand the worry.