Dan Hitchens (@ddhitchens)

25 questions for @kimleadbeater: 1. You’ve suggested that feeling like “a burden” could be a “legitimate” reason to ask for an assisted suicide, and you rejected an amendment to rule this out. How common do you think it is for terminally ill people to feel like a burden? 2. If a terminally ill per...

1. The impact assessment suggests there could be up to 4,559 assisted suicides per year by 2039. Already somewhat higher than the “40 patients per year” predicted by Leadbeater ally @SadikAlHassanMP. But there is good reason to think 4500 is a serious underestimate. Here’s why: ...