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Today was one of best days of debate since being in the Lords. A big moral decsion on whether to change the law on #AssistedDying with the #MeacherBillI. I argued against law change, as I believe it would send a nihilistic message to society. A counsel of despair. (1/2)

Someone explain to me how this is not glamourising suicide.

Dying/ill/disabled people still need suicide prevention & support if we feel we want to die. Assisted suicide laws tends to circumvent that support, seeing our actions as inevitable. Thanks to whoever taped Samaritans posters over the assisted suicide ones on the underground.

Again, "safeguards". Jess Phillips I think is minister for safeguarding: You would need people trained to the hilt, incl in detecting coercion. #AssistedDying Bill is being sold to politicians by a clever PR machine as 'progress'. An empty word.

agedcareinsite.com.au/2024/10/life-a…

The importance of social work and palliative care in aged care cannot be overlooked. Thanks Palliative Care Australia and Jo Wood for these insights and advocacy. youtu.be/ZmAUJNGhqOw?fe…

Resharing my Atlantic piece about Jimmy Carter wanting to survive long enough to vote for Kamala. Dying cannot stop our yearning to make meaning, inspire and contribute. Death is generative. Who we are never ends. theatlantic.com/health/archive…

An FoI to Dept Work and Pensions reveals 1 in 5 people given 6 months to live are still alive after three years. Not surprising to any clinician. But pretty relevant to the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life)* Bill *aka assisted dying

There's the cost/economic argument for #AssistedDying coming through. Last years of life most costly to healthcare, saving difficult to cost. Three studies attempted this, all indicated that AD laws can result in a substantial net reduction in healthcare costs 👇🧵

This is a very important clip. On how the assisted dying bill will would require us to rewrite our suicide prevention strategy, and on wider societal implications including non-assisted suicide

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The Assisted Suicide Bill Committee has finished. My final speech here. This is not the Bill the public thought they were getting. It contradicts the NHS Act and the Hippocratic Oath. It's got worse, not better, in committee.

Many British Geriatrics Society “members are not confident that effective legal safeguards could be developed to protect older people... the risk for safeguard failure is at least moderate in a modern, well-run AD service which we find to be unacceptable.” bgs.org.uk/bgs-position-s…

Most RCPsych members “would not be willing to participate in an AD/AS service including determination of capacity or assessing mental disorder.” “Bill does not address the more subtle forms of coercion such as where a person may internalise a feeling of being a burden.”

🎉 Happy National Palliative Care Week #NPCW #PCA! 🎉 To celebrate, PCOC has asked several key members of the sector to reflect on how palliative care in Australia has evolved over the past 20 years. Palliative Care Australia's CEO, Camilla Rowland provides her reflections:

🎉 For National Palliative Care Week #NPCW #PCA, we reached out to a few significant members of the sector and asked them to reflect on the past 20 years of palliative care in Aus. We received an incredibly insightful array of perspectives! Thank you to all who contributed👏

🌟 During National Palliative Care Week #NPCW #PCA, it is incredibly valuable to hear the voices of patients/clients and their family and carers. 👨‍👩‍👦 Thank you again to our consumer representatives for sharing their perspective on the past 20yrs of palliative care in Aus! 👏

Initiating conversations with prominent figures in the sector during National Palliative Care Week #NPCW #PCA was incredibly enlightening! We’ve looked outward into the sector to gather perspectives, so we thought why not look inward within our PCOC team to share our insights ✨

We have thoroughly enjoyed reading the diversity of reflections we gathered for National Palliative Care Week #NPCW #PCA, and we hope you have too. ☺️ For some of our final reflections, we would like to share the words of a few highly significant members of the sector...👏

A key pillar of PCOC’s governance are our Chief Investigators: Distinguished Professor Patsy Yates, Professor Kirsten Auret and Professor Katy Clark! For National Palliative Care Week #NPCW #PCA, they have all shared their thoughts on the evolution of palliative care in Aus. 🎉