Dr Emma Clare
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@EmmaCClare
Inactive - you can’t help build a better world whilst using a platform that profits from hate. Get off X.
In the first few seconds of the Bill @LordCFalconer says an outright untruth "The Bill makes it explicit...that it's got to be a physical illness only, that a mental illness will not qualify" That's false. Nowhere in the Bill does it say explicitly it has to be physical Nor does the Bill say a mental illness will not qualify. The provision about mental illness explicitly says that it has no legal effect and that any illness which meets the two limbs of the terminal illness definition will qualify [even if it is mental] Receipts below
I hired a 'death doula' to help my terminally ill mother in her final days - it was the best decision I made and here's why you should consider it trib.al/TxgoJsv
Available tomorrow on @BBCiPlayer and from 9pm on @BBCTwo.
A super talk with @EmmaCClare Listen & learn about: ✔death competency ✔️death literacy ✔️influences on HCPs coping responses speakforme.co.uk/podcast-episod… @drkathrynmannix @eoldoulaUK @hospiceuk #AdvanceCarePlanning
Extraordinary opening to the assisted suicide committee, so testy that the chair had to intervene. Before the committee was closed to the public we learnt: —Motion to sit without public scrutiny was only proposed last night without explanation —Kim Leadbeater’s reasoning is “respecting individuals’ privacy” (no further explanation) —Leadbeater sent round her witness selection last week, and then changed it; committee only told the changes at 10am today —Proposed witnesses include 8 supporters from other jurisdictions, 0 opponents —Of 9 lawyers, 6 in favour, 3 neutral, 0 against —No witnesses from disability organisations
The Terminally Ill Adults Bill Committee has just voted 14 to 8 against calling oral evidence from the Royal College of Psychiatrists I have no words
