Why you must care about the assisted dying bill || my views as a student doctor

Hello from Cambridge this Thursday morning. recently, my time on the wards has made me more passionate about speaking out on this topic. I would love to hear your views too. Rosia :)

Krish Kandiah on the assisted dying bill:

There is time to email your local MP-before Friday- many MPs have not made up their mind. It takes 30 seconds to email your MP using this link here:

Here is another helpful blog post:

[ChelsHatton]

My Grandma was diagnosed with terminal cancer and told she had 4 years to live. Almost 12 years later she's still alive and receives medication which was only being trialled when she was diagnosed. She remembers reading about this medication a few weeks after getting her news and remembers the feeling of dispare that she would die before it was available to her. 12 years later she now receives that very medication, has seen many grandchildren & great grandchildren be born and has experienced so much life and joy. I see how the 6 month boundary could benefit so many people in extreme pain and agree that its their choice. Yet once that boundary slowly becomes bigger and is opened up to more people, I fear people like my grandma would take the option to die and not live to see the new life they could have instead.

[chenzhuang]

Nice video! Friday is gonna be a big day with ramificaitons for the ages to come. Considering that Canada and the Netherlands have already legalized the bill

[ari]

thank you for this, deffo useful info for med interviews too!