00:00Hello and welcome to Manchester World, my name's Theo Hewson-Bett and today I'm going out onto the streets of Manchester to ask people about the assisted dying bill that MPs voted on last week.
00:09The idea of the policy is that it will allow terminal patients with six months or less to live to end their life legally here in the UK.
00:15It's been a bit of a controversial topic with people in favour of the policy believing that it gives people the right to die on their own terms,
00:21sparing their family from heartache and pain as well as themselves from suffering.
00:25While the other argument is centred around the value of life and worry that vulnerable people could be tricked or pushed into dying earlier than they have to.
00:33So let's go see what people have to say.
00:35It's a weird thing to think about right now, but I think it obviously is for some people.
00:42It happens all the time and like suicide is a very common thing, especially with like terminal patients.
00:50And also a lot of the things you go through, it's a lot of suffering.
00:55So to be honest, because I've never been in that situation and I've never been close to anyone in that situation, I don't, I don't know.
01:03But I don't see why having a safe option there is a bad thing.
01:10I've known people who are having these illnesses that are taking, stripping them at every sense of their being.
01:19And like, they're just being kept alive by like machines.
01:22Like, I just think it's cool.
01:24Like, let them go peacefully.
01:26Like, especially when they don't have a say.
01:28Like, when you pass that point of your own being able to say what you want to do, also existed in like, I don't know.
01:36I've always said it about going to a care home.
01:37I wouldn't want to ever go into a care home.
01:39So it would be not an option if someone said that because I'm too young to even think about that.
01:43But it's certainly something that's, it's good that it's come about now.
01:48Because it's always been something that's spoke about like in other countries.
01:51Yeah.
01:51I've never even heard about it in this country.
01:52I think it's hard as well because it also brings into play questions like, are they well enough of mine to be able to make that decision?
02:01So there's a lot of factors that go into it.
02:03But I think in terms of healthcare, in the UK, yeah, it's always been about patients and about saving lives.
02:11But also we have hospices, we have, you know, it's pain medication at the end for a lot of people.
02:19So I can see there's an argument for it.
02:23Yeah.
02:23It isn't up to the family.
02:25You should put that in place before saying, are you saying that it's like something happened to us today?
02:29It'd be a different story.
02:30But I believe that with news coming up and you're talking about my family, we already know what to do in that circumstance.
02:38Because you have that conversation.
02:39I feel like you're always in that conversation.
02:40But I, I would leave it up to my family.
02:45I believe they know me best to do that for me.
02:48And in terms of like the healthcare being like, you should always, it should be about preserving life and saving life.
02:53Like, I think it's a bit of a taboo subject sometimes.
02:57Let it be.
02:58Like, I think it's a bit of a taboo subject, but I think it's a bit of a taboo subject, but I think it's a bit of a taboo subject, but I think it's a bit of a taboo subject, but I think it's a bit of a taboo subject, but I think it's a bit of a taboo subject, but I think it's a bit of a taboo subject, but I think it's a bit of a taboo subject, but I think it's a bit of a taboo subject, but I think it's a bit of a taboo subject, but I think it's a bit of a taboo subject, but I think it's a bit of a taboo subject, but I think it's a bit of a taboo subject.
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