Katherine Sleeman

As @soniasodha signs off as Chief Leader Writer for the Observer, I want to say a big thank you to her for her writing on another thorny topic: assisted dying. This from 2023 remains one of the best pieces I’ve read - and remarkably prescient https://t.co/dtG6cDQxn5

Sonia Sodha @soniasodha

And most of all, thank you to everyone who’s read my columns & editorials over the years, especially those of you who’ve written to encourage me to keep going when in the trenches of the gender wars. It’s meant so much. Now from this chief leader writer, it’s over and out!

Collecting this information (which imo is the minimum required) would not make the process of requesting assisted dying more onerous for dying people. It doesn’t encroach on their ‘autonomy’. It just helps us understand if the law is working as intended. Rejected, obvs.

Rajiv Shah @RajivShah90

Worth noting that @sarahjolney1 tabled a substantial amendment which would have specified all the stats that need to be collected, and it was voted down https://t.co/s16JfuNkPk

RT @ddhitchens: The assisted suicide bill was launched in a blaze of optimism and well-managed PR. My piece in this week’s @spectator is a…

Helpful to see this in black and white. Fewer than half of UK people who have assisted dying in Switzerland would be eligible for the law currently going through Parliament.

Dan Hitchens @ddhitchens

“UK campaigners for a law permitting assisted dying (AD) restricted to those with a maximum life expectancy of 6 months claim that this would largely remove the need for UK residents to seek AD in Switzerland. We wanted to discover whether this prediction was correct.”

Devastating article on the Terminally Ill Adults Bill by @ddhitchens Genuinely painful to be reminded about all the rejected safeguards, Orwellian soundbites (“suicide is a healthy person taking their life”) and breezy spin.

Prof. Mark Taubert @ProfMarkTaubert

@historykev I found the full text archived here: https://t.co/c4jhWAz6NV

Interesting piece on the conspicuous silence from suicide prevention organisations on the Terminally Ill Adults Bill. Reminds me of the conspicuous presence of the Samaritans number at the bottom of articles about assisted dying…

Jamie Gillies @jmgillies

As UK politicians weigh ‘assisted dying’, there’s a conspicuous silence from suicide prevention organisations. I find this troubling. https://t.co/EAd9gbdeoC

RT @RajivShah90: Genuinely staggering that the Codes of Practice (on which the Committee punted every difficult issue) should not be compul…

Does this mean Ministers and civil servants should stop working on the Terminally Ill Adults Bill? (doubt it) https://t.co/b9KDpMd35J https://t.co/lOHsMch28j

RT @BakerIdris: Thanks for your concern but I'm not struggling. The existing law has a prohibition on assisting suicide. The current Bil…

RT @ProfLAppleby: The assisted dying bill: “an unserious, irresponsible way to make law.” Superb from ⁦@soniasodha⁩ https://t.co/KV9d5AMm…

Exciting delivery #DementiaJourneys https://t.co/efdivwPync

Open access paper just out on The social determinants of where people die: A study of moderators and mediators using linked UK Census and mortality data. Brilliantly led by Dr Joanna Davies. https://t.co/hiXd0QFGbX https://t.co/3HSiIXEUAf

RT @ProfLAppleby: Important step - timely reminder of need for regulation of online space. Sites like this, targeting young people, are an…

RT @Jess4Lowestoft: Kit Malthouse MP suggested in 2nd Reading that dying in faecal vomit was a reason to vote for the Assisted Dying Bill.…

Episode 3 (final one) on what the actual (assisted) death is like https://t.co/larX6BttBP

Prof Katherine Sleeman @kesleeman

Episode 2 of the Inside Health mini series on assisted dying / suicide now available. Topic: how would we be certain that someone wants to die? https://t.co/eqjfFbDLB7

RT @treesey: Should a doctor *initiate* a conversation about assisted death with a patient? Kim Leadbeater’s bill says ‘yes’ - go for it…

We hear a lot about “faecal” and “faeculent” vomiting in the assisted dying debate. But what does this really mean? Very helpful explainer from @Existential_Doc

BMJ SPCare @BMJ_SPCare

"Faecal vomiting" - a case of frequently mentioned (in the #AssistedDying debate) but rarely seen? - by @Existential_Doc https://t.co/zJuANWb1O2