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A man with lung cancer has changed his stance on assisted dying since his diagnosis and is now in favour of it, despite concerns about the impact on people who choose to help him. Melvin Camden said he would pay to travel to Switzerland for euthanasia. Specialists who support families of terminally-ill Britons who travel abroad and estates litigator Alexa Payat have both called for additional scrutiny of the bill’s requirements. The proposed Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is set to be read for a last time in April. Only those with less than six months’ life expectancy would be eligible.
Natasha Wiggins from the Association of Palliative Medicine of GB and Ireland warned that legalised euthanasia could lead to vulnerable people ending their lives prematurely. Wiggins said patients often referred to “the loss of dignity” and claimed they wished to end their lives. Yet when questioned the patients often identified elements of their life that might be changed, she said. She argued that removing the law’s prohibition could lead to many people dying prematurely, without being given the opportunity to experience important life events.
Former hospice medical director and palliative care consultant Dr. Richard Scheffer called for improvements in both palliative care and assisted dying options, arguing that both have important roles in allowing patients appropriate care and experience death on their own terms. While he praised palliative care systems in the UK peerless, he said there was much room for improvement
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