Submitted on Friday 11th September 2015
Rejected on Monday 14th September 2015
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Permit the people of England & Wales a referendum on the right to assisted dying
Today (11th September, 2015) in a free vote in the Commons, 330 MPs rejected plans for a right to die in England and Wales. Only 118 MPs were in favour.
This does not reflect public opinion, which various polls have demonstrated supports and desires the right to assisted dying.
MPs do not have the right to force life on the individual. Those who wish to die are forced to end their lives earlier than they might do (if at all) by travelling to organisations like Dignitas (as was the case for Jeffrey Spector) or condemned to locked-in syndrome (Tony Nicklinson) or simply to die in a protracted and agonising manner.
Any one of the above can be you. Don’t wait until it is. Time to take the decision out of hands and consciences of MPs. Let us live with it, or opt not to!
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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We cannot accept duplicate petitions. We think this petition is similar to yours:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/106652
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