Assisted Dying Bill [HL]

My Lords, is a great privilege to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Meacher, for whom I have huge r...

My Lords, every possible argument will be rehearsed today by the 140 speakers, and many passionat...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Meacher, and listened with great attention to...

My Lords, it is a great privilege to follow the most reverend Primate the Archbishop of Canterbur...

My Lords, it is a privilege for me to follow the noble Baroness. I commend the noble Baroness, La...

My Lords, I support the Bill so eloquently proposed by the noble Baroness, Lady Meacher. I am, li...

My Lords, I remind the House that I was a member of the Commission on Assisted Dying chaired by t...

My Lords, this is a dangerous Bill and should be rejected. The key issues I will concentrate on a...

My Lords, like many others in this Chamber I have been overwhelmed by the number of letters I hav...

My Lords, confronted with the death of my own mother this year, I have had to think long and hard...

My Lords, very few people consider maximal extension of life, irrespective of its quality, to be ...

My Lords, as you pass 90 this matter becomes somewhat personal, so perhaps I should declare an in...

My Lords, if I were in a wilderness with a friend dying in extreme agony, days away from any help...

My Lords, I believe we are having the passionate yet deeply respectful debate that the noble Lord...

My Lords, it is an honour to follow the noble Lord, Lord Dobbs, and to have listened to the erudi...

My Lords, this is the fourth Assisted Dying Bill that I have supported in your Lordships’ House; ...

My Lords, in my former judicial capacity in the Supreme Court in the case of Nicklinson, which th...

My Lords, I will focus on the past, the present and two possible futures. In the past, our nation...

My Lords, in the three short years in which I have had the privilege to sit in your Lordships’ Ho...

My Lords, I am opposed to this Bill, although I accept that it is a desperately difficult issue; ...

My Lords, the proposal to assist people to die is a question that can divide reasonable people. I...

My Lords, I start by saying that I am totally opposed to the Bill and completely opposed to the p...

My Lords, I, too, am deeply concerned about this Bill and oppose it. Let me give yet another very...

My Lords, I support the Bill of the noble Baroness, Lady Meacher, and think that it represents a ...

My Lords, advocates of the Bill avow that assisting terminally ill people nearing their natural e...

My Lords, I admire greatly many who have conscientiously proposed and supported this Bill and sim...

My Lords, when I was writing my notes for today’s debate, initially I put down a word and a phras...

My Lords, I have been told many times that this Bill is about choice and autonomy. What right hav...

My Lords, I recognise that I speak in this debate against a background of the intense and emotion...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Meacher, for introducing the Bill. Like many colleague...

My Lords, if we were considering a Bill to extend palliative care far and wide, I suspect we woul...

My Lords, I have two stories about two people. One was a very good friend of mine, who was diagno...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lady Meacher for bringing forward this Bill, which I strongly s...

My Lords, I support this Bill, as an assisted dying law is needed to address the unacceptable suf...

My Lords, I am very lucky to have the opportunity to speak today in favour of the Assisted Dying ...

My Lords, I begin by noting the simple courtesy that has been expressed so far during the debate ...

My Lords, it is a very great privilege to follow one of the most senior bishops in the Church of ...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Meacher, for her excellent introduction to th...

My Lords, I strongly support this Bill. On 18 July 2014, we debated a similar Bill in this House,...

My Lords, I rise to support this Bill very strongly. I also strongly support the point made by th...

My Lords, I feel incredibly honoured to be part of this debate. Apart from personal interests, I ...

My Lords, I presided in the Court of Appeal on the case of Noel Conway. We followed the Nicklinso...

My Lords, I know that my friend, the noble Baroness, Lady Meacher, is motivated by nothing but ki...

My Lords, there have been substantial changes since the last time this subject was discussed in t...

My Lords, we live in dangerous times. Dr Shipman, a GP from Yorkshire, killed many of his patient...

My Lords, I oppose the Bill despite the respect I have for the noble Baroness, Lady Meacher. I wi...

My Lords, this is a very difficult subject. It raises moral, ethical, religious and practical iss...

My Lords, because of my respect for life, I have always been opposed to euthanasia, as well as so...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Meacher, on bringing forward the Bill, which ha...

My Lords, it is good that we are having this debate today, but I fear I must repeat arguments I h...

My Lords, I rise in trepidation. Having canvassed extensively on the etiquette of a maiden speech...

My Lords, may I congratulate the noble Baroness on a characteristically excellent maiden speech? ...

My Lords, I am grateful to be able to contribute to this important debate. I have many questions ...

My Lords, we have already heard many eloquent speeches from both sides of the debate. Before the ...

My Lords, I also congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Davidson, on a terrific maiden speech. It ...

My Lords, that is a difficult speech to follow. My family home is over the hill from Vernham Dean...

My Lords, forgive me for not standing. If I stand, noble Lords will have to pick me up, so it is ...

My Lords, I was called away and only heard the impressive speech by the noble Baroness, Lady Meac...

My Lords, I have thought long and hard about contributing to this debate, not because it is not i...

My Lords, it is now over 15 years since I last spoke at the Second Reading of an assisted dying B...

My Lords, it is a real privilege to take part in this debate and I congratulate the noble Barones...

My Lords, I have been moved to speak in this debate by the huge number of letters and emails that...

My Lords, I also congratulate my noble friend Lady Davidson on her excellent speech, in which she...

My Lords, I draw attention to my unpaid interests in the register. Both Houses began this week in...

My Lords, it is a privilege to follow the noble Lord, Lord Alton. I too congratulate the noble Ba...

My Lords, when talking about this euthanasia Bill, the first thing we have to say is that the pre...

I want to make just three points. The main argument that we have heard against the Bill is the fe...

My Lords, some 35 years ago my father was in the final stages of dying from pancreatic cancer. He...

My Lords, my noble friends Lady Seccombe, Lady Neville-Rolfe, Lady Morris of Bolton and Lady Manz...

My Lords, I support the Bill, above all as a matter of choice. I congratulate my noble friend Lad...

My Lords, we are privileged to be in a position to have this debate, express the views of our con...

My Lords, I, too, oppose the Bill. I am a Christian and a priest in the Church of England, but I ...

My Lords, I, too, congratulate my noble friend Lady Meacher on bringing forward this Bill. I make...

My Lords, I begin by congratulating my noble friend Lady Davidson of Lundin Links on her excellen...

My Lords, I give my wholehearted support to the Bill proposed by the noble Baroness, Lady Meacher...

My Lords, that was a very interesting speech from the noble Baroness, Lady Murphy. I have spent a...

My Lords, I am humbled to follow the noble Lord, Lord Campbell-Savours, and to have heard what he...

My Lords, I wish to make three points. First, I am totally opposed to this Bill because of my bel...

My Lords, I am a trustee of the Refugee Council, which tries to help those who get here having es...

My Lords, I appreciate that this is very sensitive subject. Life is an amazing and wonderful jour...

My Lords, I support the Bill and thank the noble Baroness, Lady Meacher, very much for introducin...

My Lords, I deeply respect the noble Baroness, Lady Meacher, and particularly her desire to reduc...

I think it was my go next.

My apologies.

I thank the noble Baroness for that introduction. Like the noble and learned Lord, Lord Mance, I ...

My Lords, I still deeply respect the noble Baroness, Lady Meacher, and particularly her desire to...

My Lords, I have long been one of the group campaigning to see assisted suicide made legal in thi...

My Lords, this has been one of those occasions in the life of the House where there is satisfacti...

My Lords, I want to refer to the case of my mother-in-law, a person of whom I was extremely fond,...

My Lords, in the six years since assisted dying was last debated in Parliament, lawmakers around ...

My Lords, it is not death but the manner of dying that concerns most people. However, of the many...

My Lords, in light of the letter that appeared in the Times yesterday, I confirm that I am the fo...

My Lords, I will speak in support of the Bill, focusing on the implications for disabled people. ...

My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lady Davidson of Lundin Links on her excellent maiden sp...

My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lady Davidson of Lundin Links on her remarkable maiden s...

My Lords, so many of us in this House have personal experience of watching someone close to us di...

My Lords, after five and a half hours—and with several more hours to come—of what has, I must say...

My Lords, one thing on which I think we can all agree is that everyone speaking today does so wit...

My Lords, “Whose Life Is It Anyway?”—so asked the title of the 1970s play which examined the issu...

My Lords, as legislators, we surely have a duty to safeguard the public good as best we can. We m...

My Lords, my first duty today is to say that my noble friend Lady Liddell, who is heartbroken not...

My Lords, I begin with praise for the speech of my noble friend Lady Davidson, even though I take...

My Lords, noble Lords have had many heartrending letters expressing the pain and indignity at the...

My Lords, the supporters of the Motion emphasise the technical and modest parameters of the propo...

My Lords, I thank all those who have sent me emails and letters, both against and for the Bill. T...

My Lords, I first draw attention to my entry in the register of interests and my involvement with...

My Lords, it is an honour to follow all those who have taken part in this most distinguished deba...

My Lords, I apologise for repeating much of what your Lordships have already heard. Most, if not ...

My Lords, I am a complete unbeliever in religion. I raise the fact that in this long and very dis...

No, they do not.

The noble Lord says no. I am not saying it is all of them; I said many of them. Why he wants to d...

My Lords, I strongly support the Bill before us, as I had its predecessors, and, as has been said...

My Lords, as the holder of a Scottish peerage, I particularly welcome and congratulate my noble f...

My Lords, as many noble Lords have already remarked, this issue of assisted dying has quite right...

My Lords, assisted dying is a very emotive and sensitive issue, with deeply held views on all sid...

My Lords, I refer to the Assisted Dying Bill debated in the House of Lords on 16 January 2015, wh...

My Lords, Kierkegaard tells us that life is lived forwards but understood backwards. What we do t...

My Lords, I welcome the opportunity to participate in this timely and important debate. I start b...

My Lords, today we live in an increasingly selfish and uncaring society, in which euphemisms such...

My Lords, I thank the very many people who have contacted me. I have received some very eloquent,...

My Lords, I draw attention to my interests in the register. The Bill before us is designed to all...

My Lords, I feel constrained to begin with a theological view, as the noble Lord, Lord Lipsey, ch...

My Lords, this House has now debated assisted dying on very many occasions, whether it has been t...

My Lords, with over 100 speakers down, the Bill has had a good airing. I supported the Bill on it...

My Lords, there have been many eloquent speeches so far in this debate, and thoughtful and erudit...

My Lords, I draw attention to what I said in two of our previous debates on assisted dying, at co...

My Lords, I strongly support the Bill but, in doing so, I recognise that all noble Lords care dee...

My Lords, I speak with 40 years’ clinical experience, first in general practice but mostly in psy...

Like so many in your Lordships’ House, I suspect, I have been undecided on this very complex, and...

My Lords, I start by drawing your attention to my entry in the register of interests. I speak in ...

My Lords, this House has stood up time and again for human rights—for the poor, disabled, gay peo...

My Lords, it is not unusual for me to speak on this subject, as you have heard. I have been invol...

My Lords, I declare all my roles in the register. My experience extends to caring for several tho...

My Lords, I have listened with care and respect to the passionate arguments expressed on both sid...

My Lords, we have had an extraordinarily moving debate from both sides of the argument as well as...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Davidson, on her maiden speech; it was spectacu...

My Lords, I join others in congratulating the noble Baroness, Lady Meacher, on bringing forward t...

My Lords, I thank every single one of your Lordships who has spoken here today. I want to say a s...

Hear, hear.

I do want to respond to the noble Lord, Lord Carlile, because I can do it quickly. The High Court...

I just want to pay my deepest and sincere compliments to the noble Baroness, Lady Meacher, whose ...