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UK MPs Vote on Assisted Dying Bill in Historic Decision

UK MPs Vote on Assisted Dying Bill in Historic Decision

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The Spin

Terminal patients deserve dignity in their final moments, not prolonged agony in sterile hospital corridors. Progressive societies recognize that compassionate choice trumps forced suffering — allowing individuals to author their own peaceful endings rather than endure excruciating deterioration. When palliative care fails and pain becomes unbearable, assisted dying offers the ultimate human right: control over one's own mortality with grace.

Assisted dying transforms healers into executioners, corrupting medicine's sacred duty to preserve life. What begins as a compassionate choice for the terminally ill inevitably expands — Canada's slippery slope proves this horrifying reality. Rather than sanctioning state-approved killing that pressures vulnerable populations into premature death, society must invest in exceptional palliative care that honors human dignity without abandoning hope.

Metaculus Prediction

There is a 20% chance someone will report having received a hemispherectomy for the purpose of life extension before 2100, according to the Metaculus prediction community.


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