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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 20 March 2026
Debate
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillContribution
Patients need to know that a prognosis is especially likely to be wrong with poorly researched conditions such as cancer in younger adults or MND. It was shocking to me to discover that, in Canada, most people with MND now die by MAID—assisted death. The natural progression of the disease is very hard to predict, yet people are given assisted death. How would you know, given that we are only just finding out that people can live years longer than the doctors had originally thought?
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