An amendment to the Government’s Health and Care Bill sought to force the Government into drafting an assisted suicide bill within a year of the Health and Care Bill becoming law. The Association of Palliative Medicine (APM) has warned that the public is being “scared” into supporting assisted suicide through an excessive focus by the media on cases of suffering at end-of-life, This can lead to the perception that there is no hope and create the false choice between a painful, drawn-out and unnecessarily unpleasant death and assisted suicide or euthanasia. But this is not the case at all. Good palliative care is, or should be, an option for everyone at the end of life.
