UK parliament backs right to die for terminally ill in historic vote

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The British Parliament on Friday took a historic step towards allowing Khwaja Sarai when MPs supported controversial legislation, which would introduce an assistant to the economically ill.

In the Chamber of Lower House of Commons, lawmakers voted in favor of 214 in favor of 291 to send the proposal to the House of Lords for further scrutiny after a four -hour emotional debate.

The result gave rise to celebrations among supporters gathered outside the parliament, who say that Khawaja Sara has been given legal status, he will provide people with the dignity and choice of illness at the end of their lives.

But opponents who participated in the neighboring anti -protection said they feared the weak people could be forced to die, and lawmakers were urged to focus on improving the care of the stroke instead.

The temporary sick adults (the end of life) will allow auxiliary suicide in England and Wales for adults who have been given less than six months to survive.

They will have to be able to manage the self -living material, and the desire for any patient to die will have to be signed by a panel of two doctors and a specialist.

The change in the law will imitate the UK with Europe and many other countries, which allows to die with some kind of help, including Belgium and the Netherlands.

Heartbroken stories

Labor MP Kim Leader, who proposes legislation, told the so -called debate on Friday that the change in the law would “offer sympathy and safe choices for the sick people who end.”

He said maintaining stagnation would mean “pain and trauma, suicide efforts, PTSD, lonely journey for Switzerland, (and) police investigation” more “heartbreaking stories”.

But Labor’s Wiki Fox Craft said the proposal does not include appropriate security measures for people with disabilities.

“We have to protect those who are oppressed, who already feel that societies do not value them, who often feel the burden on the state, society and their family,” he pleaded.

Outside the parliament, the protesters hoisted the play card with the slogans in which “let’s choose” and shout slogans, including “Don’t Make Doctors”.

82 -year -old David Walker said he supported changing the law because he saw his 60 -year -old wife suffered for three years at the end of her life.

He told AFP, “That’s why I am here, because I can’t help it, but I can help other people who are going through the same thing, because if you do not have the quality of life, you have nothing.”

But the 52 -year -old doctor, Elizabeth, said he feared the legislation would open the “sloping slopes” where helpers were eligible to help the dead.

He told AFP, “Once we allow it. Everything will slip down because dementia patients, all patients are weak.”

Public support

In the 650 seats parliament, MPs supported the first version of the proposed legislation in the preliminary vote in Parliament last November, which is more than 23 majority on Friday.

Since then, there have been several changes to the bill, which include banning advertising to die and allowing all health workers to help end one’s life.

MPs added a security guard that prevents someone from being eligible “as a result of” completely voluntarily preventing eating, and rejecting people in Anorexia. “

The UK Medical Community and Prime Minister Kerr Star’s chief ministerial team is divided on the proposed law. The star voted in favor, while his health and justice secretaries opposed it.

But in a Yogov survey of 2,003 adults, which was surveyed last month and published on Thursday, 73 % of respondents supported a deadly law.

“The change is coming,” said Sarah Votan, chief executive of the dignity in the dining campaign group.

But Catherine Robinson of the Wright to Life Britain insisted that “there is still a great war” to get the Lord’s and its opposition campaign group to stop the bills.

The House of Lords now needs to pass the legislation before the end of the current parliamentary year, possibly in the fall, or the bill will fail.

If it passes and receives the royal consent, it will be four years before the death of the dying service is implemented.

The diagnosis of the official effects published this month is estimated that there may be about 160 to 640 auxiliary deaths in the first year, which increased to 4,500 in a decade.

At present, a maximum of 14 years has been sentenced to 14 years in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Separate legislation is going through the Scottish Parliament.

At the end of March, the Oil of Man became the first British territory to pass an auxiliary bill.