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@kesleeman Well we wouldn’t want that can of worms opened would we? It might raise some concern that merited further exploration and help for something other than suicide.

RT @philipmurraylaw: “And who will this affect? It will not be celebrities,TV personalities and the very well-to-do ... It will be the poor…

@MaXFalstein @RightToLifeUK He did explain to the committee he’s a trustee of DinD. Leadbeater’s searching question to help the committee consider possible weaknesses in her bill was to ask him why he was such a strong supporter of her cause.

@BarbaraRich_law @soniasodha @HackneyAbbott It requires sensitive inquiry by a suitably experienced and interested clinician, making an inquiry into psychological and social influences on the decision. The bill requires neither careful selection of accredited doctors nor psychosocial assessment.

@thelizcarr Your contribution to the campaign against this awful bill has been an inspiration, Liz. Thank you.

RT @ChristophLyon: Several experts on the Canadian #MAID system have submitted written evidence for the UK #assistedying bill, but none are…

@tomgordonLD But there’s no requirement to be facing a painful death? The bill is really about assisting the suicide of anybody likely to die within the next 6-12 months, if they have the cognitive capacity and independence to be able to ask for it.

RT @nmdacosta: A worryingly long list of issues in the Assisted Dying Bill identified in the written evidence None of these were touched o…

@BarbaraRich_law @thomasjac82 @kesleeman @Docstockk It indicates a complete lack of understanding of, and interest in, suicide more generally.

@Docstockk It seems beyond Kim Leadbeater to understand why you might ask about psychological or social influences on a request for assisted suicide. All that’s required is the ability to make the request; “being” terminally ill seen as self-evidently sufficient reason

RT @doctor_oxford: This is absolutely not a fair representation of the evidence you were provided with last week, Kim. I spoke in sincere…

RT @DrLilyLamb: Well said @mgtmccartney ‘It’s taken a long time for medicine to understand that we need to review what’s already known befo…

@Medic11358726 Mental capacity isn’t at all the right framework to rely on as the central consideration in undertaking safe assessment of somebody thinking of suicide.

@CNKAlliance @Celia_Manson I raised this in my written evidence. No sign Leadbeater is aware of this alarming trend in #AssistedDying. Another unconsidered risk.

RT @CNKAlliance: 9 couples died by “duo-#euthanasia” in The Netherlands in 2018. This rose to 34 in 2022. And to 54 in 2023. Perfectly l…

@Jess4Lowestoft It would be honest to say “We won’t progress this because one fatal error is one too many”, honest to say “We accept a proportion of fatal errors, the proportion being x%”, dishonest to pretend (as supporters do) that fatal errors won’t happen.

@kesleeman An important discussion. When a syringe driver is used to deliver post-op pain relief it is called “patient controlled analgesia”. Its use in Leadbeater’s bill is vaguely described and could easily be construed as “patient controlled euthanasia”.

@AJogee @philipmurraylaw It’s the equivalent of safety testing a car by driving it round a flat circuit at 20mph.

RT @ddhitchens: Update: Kim Leadbeater’s witness list was far more unbalanced than previously reported. Of those representing a position,…