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On 13 March, Starmer pledged to give MPs a vote on assisted suicide if Labour won the 2024 general election. [6] On 29 April 2024, MPs debated assisted suicide after a petition on UK Parliament petitions website reached the 100,000 signature threshold. [7] [8] By the time of the debate it had reached over 200,000 signatures.
The phrase "assisted dying" is often used instead of physician-assisted suicide by proponents of legalisation and the media when used in the context of a medically assisted suicide for the purpose of relieving suffering. Bills to legalise assisted dying have been introduced multiple times in Parliament since the 1930s, but none have passed. [4]
The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Choice at the End of Life is a cross-party group of members of the British Parliament and Peers that supports better end-of-life options, including assisted dying. They believe that, subject to legal safeguards, terminally-ill adult patients should have the option of an assisted death in their final stages ...
Labour MP Kim Leadbeater’s controversial legislation to be published
Assisted dying would give society a better approach to the end of life, the MP leading a push for a change to the law has said, but opponents warned against bringing in a “state suicide service”.
‘If a patient wants to die, then to many people, it seems as if medicine has an obligation to help them get dead.’
Lawmakers in Britain gave initial approval to a bill to allow terminally ill adults to end their lives in England and Wales in a vote in the House of Commons on Friday.
In June 2016, the Bill was re-introduced to the House of Lords by former Dignity in Dying treasurer Lord Hayward. [26] Falconer reintroduced the bill into the House of Lords again in July 2024. [27] In October 2024, Kim Leadbeater introduced Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill on assisted suicide. [28]