On Friday, 29 November 2024, MPs in the United Kingdom voted in favour of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.
It is difficult to know how to react to what can be considered one of the greatest betrayals of the vulnerable in society in recent history. The debate was riddled with falsehoods. The bill's advocates often, to use a 21st-century phrase, "gaslit" their opponents by claiming that where assisted suicide has become law—in 30 jurisdictions around the world—it has never been extended beyond its original intention.
