🧵 THIS BILL IS HOW THE NHS COULD LEGALLY END YOUR LIFE — WITHOUT YOU EVEN KNOWING
This Friday, Parliament votes on the
Access to Palliative and End of Life Care and Treatment (Terminal Illness) Bill.
They claim it is about dignity for the dying.
But the truth is far darker.
It gives the NHS the legal power to quietly end your life
Even if you could survive.
Here is how 👇
This Friday, Parliament votes on the
Access to Palliative and End of Life Care and Treatment (Terminal Illness) Bill.
They claim it is about dignity for the dying.
But the truth is far darker.
It gives the NHS the legal power to quietly end your life
Even if you could survive.
Here is how 👇
1️⃣The bill sounds caring.
Who would not support better access to palliative care?
But what it actually does is create a legal framework for silent medical killings
With no consent
No challenge
No consequences
Let us look closer
Who would not support better access to palliative care?
But what it actually does is create a legal framework for silent medical killings
With no consent
No challenge
No consequences
Let us look closer
2️⃣It gives doctors and NHS boards a legal duty to provide palliative care to people they label as “terminally ill” But here is the catch
“Terminal illness” is never defined
There is no time limit
No medical test
No second opinion required
“Terminal illness” is never defined
There is no time limit
No medical test
No second opinion required
3️⃣That means any patient with any condition could be branded “dying” based on one doctor’s judgement
No oversight
No formal threshold
And once that label is applied
The care changes
You are not treated
You are managed until death
No oversight
No formal threshold
And once that label is applied
The care changes
You are not treated
You are managed until death
4️⃣🩸 Here is a real world scenario
You walk into A and E with a cut finger
You are elderly
You have diabetes or frailty
A clinician decides you are nearing the end of life
You are not sent for surgery
You are sedated
You die
Without ever being treated
You walk into A and E with a cut finger
You are elderly
You have diabetes or frailty
A clinician decides you are nearing the end of life
You are not sent for surgery
You are sedated
You die
Without ever being treated
5️⃣There is no legal way for your family to stop it
No second opinion is guaranteed
No legal right of appeal
No protection if the doctor is wrong
No liability if you are needlessly killed
No second opinion is guaranteed
No legal right of appeal
No protection if the doctor is wrong
No liability if you are needlessly killed
6️⃣Sound extreme
It already happened
Under COVID NHS guidance used frailty scores to deny ICU care
DNR orders were issued without consent
Sedation and end of life drugs were prescribed to patients who could have lived
This bill just makes that permanent law
It already happened
Under COVID NHS guidance used frailty scores to deny ICU care
DNR orders were issued without consent
Sedation and end of life drugs were prescribed to patients who could have lived
This bill just makes that permanent law
7️⃣Worse still
It mandates national palliative planning protocols and patient data tracking
That means
AI driven triage is coming
The system can use your health data to decide you are not worth saving
Without a human ever reviewing your case
It mandates national palliative planning protocols and patient data tracking
That means
AI driven triage is coming
The system can use your health data to decide you are not worth saving
Without a human ever reviewing your case
8️⃣If this passes
An algorithm can flag you as too frail
A doctor rubber stamps it
You are placed on an end of life pathway
You never know the full options you had
And your death becomes an efficient quiet outcome
An algorithm can flag you as too frail
A doctor rubber stamps it
You are placed on an end of life pathway
You never know the full options you had
And your death becomes an efficient quiet outcome
9️⃣This is what the bill really does
✅ Enables the NHS to legally withdraw life saving treatment
✅ Shields doctors and ICBs from legal consequences
✅ Removes all external oversight or appeal
✅ Normalises state managed death decisions
✅ Enables the NHS to legally withdraw life saving treatment
✅ Shields doctors and ICBs from legal consequences
✅ Removes all external oversight or appeal
✅ Normalises state managed death decisions
🔟And yes
This is a stepping stone to legal euthanasia
Once the state has the power to decide you are dying
The next step is “helping you along”
This bill sets the legal logistical and psychological groundwork
This is a stepping stone to legal euthanasia
Once the state has the power to decide you are dying
The next step is “helping you along”
This bill sets the legal logistical and psychological groundwork
📅 FINAL VOTE: Friday 14 June 2024
If it passes it goes to the Lords
Then it becomes law
And the UK will cross a line we can never uncross
Where death becomes policy not tragedy
If it passes it goes to the Lords
Then it becomes law
And the UK will cross a line we can never uncross
Where death becomes policy not tragedy
📢 WHAT YOU MUST DO
📧 Email your MP today
📞 Call their office
🛑 Demand they vote NO to the
Access to Palliative and End of Life Care and Treatment (Terminal Illness) Bill
This is not about care
It is about quiet elimination
📧 Email your MP today
📞 Call their office
🛑 Demand they vote NO to the
Access to Palliative and End of Life Care and Treatment (Terminal Illness) Bill
This is not about care
It is about quiet elimination
📌 FINAL THOUGHT
This bill gives the state the power to end your life
Without proof you are dying
Without your consent
Without recourse for your family
They will say you “died with dignity”
But the truth is
You were denied the right to live
This bill gives the state the power to end your life
Without proof you are dying
Without your consent
Without recourse for your family
They will say you “died with dignity”
But the truth is
You were denied the right to live
You can read the bill here 👇
publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill…
publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill…
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