Not Dead Yet UK and DPAC (Disabled People Against Cuts), two of the UK’s leading disability justice campaigns, will demonstrate outside Parliament on Friday, 13 June 2025, from 9:00 AM to 2:30 PM, at Old Palace Yard, Westminster, to oppose the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill 2024-25, commonly referred to as the Assisted Suicide Bill.
The demonstration coincides with the second part of the Bill’s Report Stage, a pivotal moment as MPs debate amendments ahead of the Third Reading on 20 June. The Bill’s momentum has faltered following withdrawals of support from major medical bodies citing insufficient safeguards, and growing concern among the public and cross-party MPs about the risks it poses, especially to disabled people. Many fear that coercion could be disguised as choice in a society where essential support services continue to be dismantled.
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Not Dead Yet UK and DPAC are leading the opposition to the Bill on behalf of disabled people across the UK. They highlight grave risks, including the likelihood of disabled people choosing to end their lives not from terminal illness but from the chronic neglect of care systems, and pressure to see themselves as burdens.
Joining them on the day will be supporters from across the disability and human rights community, including Disability Rights UK, the Together Declaration, and Families Against Involuntary Medical Euthanasia. Their message is clear: legalising assisted suicide endangers disabled lives.
“This Bill risks state-sanctioned suicide. It risks making people feel like a burden, while ignoring the social, economic, and systemic pressures that deny people the treatment and dignity they need to live,” said George Fielding, a representative of Not Dead Yet UK.
“This is not choice. This is coercion, masquerading as compassion.”
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