Jason Dixon

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

[Jason Dixon @JasonD60]

@HelenMagi Substandard compounds are used for the death penalty.

[Jason Dixon @JasonD60]

Opponents of assisted dying are spinning this as evidence that life ending drugs are unreliable, but it should be noted that drug manufacturers refuse to supply pentobarbital for the death penalty, and States therefore procure from secretive, substandard sources.

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

US death row inmate Christa Pike taken to hospital after surviving two lethal injections, says lawyer https://t.co/rxaDO9gv82

[Jason Dixon @JasonD60]

Nope, you're still wrong.

[Kevin Yuill @historykev]

Blocked for being an #atheist. I get abuse from both sides of the religious/humanists divide, condemned as a "liberal fucktard" and "pussy" by the right and as "far right" and "fascist" by the left.
So I must be doing something right.

[Jason Dixon @JasonD60]

Evangelical Christians are developing a blood lust like never before.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 WOW! SecWar Pete Hegseth just announced the firing squad execution of Fort Hood Islamist terrorist Nidal Hasan will be **PUBLIC**

At the SAME time and place where Hasan carried out the attack.

"We'll make sure that people are able to watch it. That it's public. Because people need to understand that there's serious consequences for these types of things!"

"He's gonna get a firing squad of soldiers. As it should be."

@JackPosobiec: Did he make any final requests?

HEGSETH: "Don't care. We'll see him on December 3rd." 🥶

Hasan m*rdered 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009 while yelling "Allahu Akbar" and wounded more than 30 others

He was sentenced to death in 2013 and then sat on death row for over a DECADE. The Acting Sec. of the Army made it official

The victims' families finally get JUSTICE 🙏🏻

Our SecWar is stone COLD when it comes to traitors like this who take American lives.

@RealAmVoice

[Jason Dixon @JasonD60]

The campaign to legalise assisted dying crosses political divides too.

[Kevin Yuill @historykev]

One of the most beautiful aspects of the campaign against #assistedsuicide is that involved Marxists, Reform, Conservative, Lib Dem and Labour members, disability activists, Muslims, Jews, born-again Christians, and atheists. And it was a great pleasure to work with all of them.

[Jason Dixon @JasonD60]

@iamdrmarklee @human_frozen_ Incorrect.

[Jason Dixon @JasonD60]

Then: "we support legalising assisted dying in principle, but we must improve palliative care first!"

Now: absolute silence

A wholly predictable cop-out which assisted dying campaigners saw from a mile away.

https://t.co/I1lKoHNLwM

[Jason Dixon @JasonD60]

@human_frozen_ @iamdrmarklee Propofol is used. https://t.co/aRCGu7fPqD

[Jason Dixon @JasonD60]

@human_frozen_ @iamdrmarklee Have you ever been under general anaesthetic?

[Jason Dixon @JasonD60]

@iamdrmarklee @human_frozen_ It's enough to avoid those methods, sure.

[Jason Dixon @JasonD60]

@iamdrmarklee If MPs haven't listened to you on PC, what makes you think they'll listen to them?

[Jason Dixon @JasonD60]

@iamdrmarklee @human_frozen_ Oral administration and substandard drugs under the US death penalty seem to be your only examples.

[Jason Dixon @JasonD60]

@human_frozen_ @iamdrmarklee Assisted dying is not "tortuous".

[Jason Dixon @JasonD60]

@parvizbd @animal @historykev It's not actually true that the terminal illness model is required for "expansion", as several European countries have legalised VAD on incurable suffering criteria from the start and never used irrelevant criteria such as time left to live.

[Jason Dixon @JasonD60]

@parvizbd @animal @historykev I know you do. But wherever opponents have chosen to express their relative ethical dislike to either model, this is what I hear.

I speak as someone who finds the six month to live criteria nonsensical. Lamentably, no doubt the next parliamentary bill will again feature it.

[Jason Dixon @JasonD60]

@parvizbd @animal @historykev I think trapping people in lifetime of suffering by denying them a peaceful death, if that is what they wish for, is "bad".

Opponents of assisted dying seem unanimously agreed that an almost unconditional model of assisted dying is more ethically sound than a restrictive one.

[Jason Dixon @JasonD60]

@parvizbd @animal @historykev Given that, why do you think every other Western government has sought to set criteria for those who can seek out an assisted death rather than make it almost unconditional as the Swiss law allows?

[Jason Dixon @JasonD60]

@parvizbd @animal @historykev How do you feel about a less "institutionalised" assisted dying model such as the Swiss one?

[Jason Dixon @JasonD60]

@parvizbd @animal @historykev Giving people the choice of an assisted death isn't institutionalising ableism if that's your implication. It's not right to dismiss the opinion of a disabled person who wants an assisted death despite receiving good care.

[Jason Dixon @JasonD60]

@parvizbd @animal @historykev For some people it would be enough, for him it wasn't. The solution there wan't to deny him the choice he ultimately wanted. His family still believe he was wronged and they campaign to legalise assisted dying in the UK to this day.

[Jason Dixon @JasonD60]

@parvizbd @animal @historykev What would you say to Tony Nicklinson? https://t.co/9OkOQYJhdp

[Jason Dixon @JasonD60]

@Simps57693678 Well if MPs consider improving palliative care a prerequisite to legalising VAD then MPs should now get on and do it.

If they do nothing on PC I don't want to hear them use lack of PC as an excuse for not legalising VAD, given they now have a chance to do it.