Health Secretary Wes Streeting voices concern over a proposed bill to legalise assisted dying. He says, “failures in palliative care mean that assisted dying wouldn’t give people a real choice. It would become not a right to die, but effectively an obligation to die because the support isn’t there for good end-of-life care”.
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00:00My opposition to the bill is actually not religious. It's more practical about
00:05the state of palliative care, end-of-life care in our country and the extent to
00:09which the failures in palliative care mean that assisted dying wouldn't give
00:13people a real choice. It would become not a right to die but effectively an
00:18obligation to die because the support isn't there for good end-of-life care
00:22where it should be.