I’m glad the assisted dying bill went through today, but it’s still nowhere near enough.

Everybody has the ability to take their own life, it’s just how messy and successful it’s going to be.

When ministers are arguing that it’s wrong for people to do it because they feel like they’re burden to others I’d say that that’s the main reason and the culprits for that are the government.

Benefits and pensions are nowhere near enough to support sick and disabled people. When they need care someone has to pay for it and it’s often the family that can’t afford it.

NHS care is so pressured that that care is abysmal. Leaving the old sick and disabled in corridors dying through lack of care.

If they have savings, property or a business the government takes it all to pay for their care so whatever they wanted to leave for their family is gone.

If they have a business that employs the family, they get put out of work as well.

Often family have to give up their work and social life to care for them because they can’t afford to pay for it and/or any care is insufficient and often ends up as intentional or unintentional abuse.

Whether the family would want them to go or not doesn’t really matter, no one wants to burden them in this way.

If the government really did care for the old, sick and disabled from the cradle to the grave, a very high percentage of them wouldn’t want to go.

Put into this position, what would you want to do?