Assisted Dying in the UK Meeting - FATE and MDMD | April 2018 | Audio only

Listen to the talk by Richy Thompson, from Humanists UK, and Heather Williams, from Friends at the End (FATE) at
Fate and My Death My Decision's meeting on assisted dying in the UK in April 2018.
https://humanism.org.uk/

Humanists UK is a national charity working on behalf of non-religious people, campaigning for fairer society and secular state, & providing humanist funerals, weddings, and more.

FATE is a Scottish Charity promoting knowledge & understanding of end of life choices and Assisted Dying in Scotland & across the UK.
https://fate.scot/
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My Death, My Decision is a right-to-die campaign organisation that wants to see a more compassionate approach to dying in the UK, including giving people the opportunity to have a medically assisted death if that is their considered choice (assisted dying).

We believe that medically assisted dying should be available to all mentally competent adults with incurable health problems that reduce their quality of life permanently below the level they are willing to accept, provided this is their own persistent request.

Unlike Dignity in Dying (the largest UK assisted dying campaign group), we do not think this option should be restricted to those who are terminally ill with a prognosis of 6 months or less. Many people are left incurably suffering for longer than 6 months. Doctors are not always able to give an accurate 6 month prognosis. Doctor opposition to the 6 month criterion was one of the reasons why recent attempts to introduce assisted dying legislation was rejected.

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