Sir, Doctors will be discussing the issue of assisted dying at the British Medical Association’s annual representative meeting today, but the debate about changing the law to allow adults, like us, with illnesses that are or can be terminal, to ask for a prescription which we could use to end our suffering, is taking place in the absence of two key elements.
The first is that the views of patients facing the imminent prospect of dying have been entirely ignored. So let us make it clear — the majority of us want this choice. Palliative care can do many things to relieve symptoms but it cannot cure a loss of dignity or the inability to do the things that make life enjoyable. Anyone suggesting this