Jason Dixon

Advocate for legalising voluntary assisted dying and proportional representation in the UK. Supports @MDMDMyDecision and @MakeVotesMatter.

[Jason Dixon @JasonD60]

@DrLilyLamb @ClareGerada On that point, installing a legal framework for assisted dying rather than relying on the status quo of assuming compassion and turning a blind eye is a good idea.

[Jason Dixon @JasonD60]

The debate must continue until parliament reaches a decision say peers backing the assisted dying bill, as they call on MPs to make that a possibility.
https://t.co/f0xbK7lZNG

[Jason Dixon @JasonD60]

@TonyMarra_1 The validity of their polls is questionable at best. https://t.co/8r6QitzT3B

[Jason Dixon @JasonD60]

@JuJu4dignity @ChelseaRoff @RightToLifeUK Terminal illness is defined by clause 2(1) of the bill. If someone with anorexia was not responding to treatment and were reasonably expected to die within 6 months they would be eligible, just like anyone else with no hope of recovery.

[Jason Dixon @JasonD60]

Their death is either avoidable or it isn't. If it's avoidable they wouldn't be terminally ill and wouldn't be entitled to assistance. If their death isn't avoidable and they face certain death by starvation, I don't see the argument against assistance.

[Chelsea Roff @ChelseaRoff]

Voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED), which is what the clause you are citing addresses, is not the same thing as anorexia nervosa.

Anorexia nervosa is a mental disorder, not a voluntary decision to stop eating and drinking. People with anorexia do not typically cease intake of fluids. The illness involves distorted beliefs, compulsive behaviours, and impaired decision-making - it's not a simple choice to stop food and water.

This clause offers no protection to people with eating disorders.

[Jason Dixon @JasonD60]

@ChelseaRoff @RightToLifeUK So they are dying unavoidably?

[Jason Dixon @JasonD60]

@LBC @ChelseaRoff "A person who would not otherwise meet the requirements of subsection (1) shall not be considered to meet those requirements solely as a result of voluntarily stopping eating or drinking."

[Jason Dixon @JasonD60]

"A person who would not otherwise meet the requirements of subsection (1) shall not be considered to meet those requirements solely as a result of
voluntarily stopping eating or drinking." - that amendment from Naz Shah already exists in the bill.

[Chelsea Roff @ChelseaRoff]

My piece for @LBC on the fatuity of attempting to revive the assisted death bill through the Parliament Act, even after some of its strongest supporters acknowledged that it would place people with eating disorders at risk.

[Jason Dixon @JasonD60]

@TonyMarra_1 @Tanni_GT From what I've seen, yes.

[Jason Dixon @JasonD60]

.@Tanni_GT isn't the only former Paralympian with a view on assisted dying. Marieke Vervoort lived her life to the fullest, due to the knowledge she could use an exit route if she needed it. https://t.co/IkUQOHzNdO

[Jason Dixon @JasonD60]

@TonyMarra_1 @jamesdownar @MAiDCanada2016 @maidhouseca @AGoodDeath They should take you up on the offer, it looks lovely there. 😃

[Jason Dixon @JasonD60]

@hannahmary31 Was any vote taken to back up your claim?

[Jason Dixon @JasonD60]

"And the public deserves to know that the last bill did not die because the case for assisted dying was defeated. It died because parliament failed to finish the job."
https://t.co/4bBnQePoPv

[Jason Dixon @JasonD60]

@AndyDrozdziak "Defeat" would require a vote to that effect.

[Jason Dixon @JasonD60]

@marge8 @DAaronovitch @KateClanchy1 @Docstockk @FT @prospect_uk We can't say it was adequately demonstrated without a concluding vote.

[Jason Dixon @JasonD60]

Yet another Conservative MP saying assisted dying should be government legislation and not a PMB. They had plenty of time to bring a bill forward, they never did. Now they want to bemoan the fact that the Labour government doesn't want to.

[PoliticsHome @politicshome]

MPs must not use the Private Members’ Bill process to force through the same assisted dying legislation – it failed for good reasons
✍️@JohnCooperDG

https://t.co/b7M5cmHFj1

[Jason Dixon @JasonD60]

@politicshome @JohnCooperDG I don't remember Conservative governments bringing forward legislation either, John. Just because governments don't want to table their own legislation, doesn't mean it shouldn't be tabled at all.

[Jason Dixon @JasonD60]

@Simps57693678 @ConHome @jackmrankin Study my post more carefully, and you'll see I was wishing for the death of the concept of undemocratic bill blocking, not the peers themselves.