"I'm fairly confident as a result of what we saw last night that the next attempt to get this over the line will be successful and probably fairly comfortably so. This issue is not going away, the number of people affected by these bad deaths - given the demographic trends, given the advances in medicine - those numbers are only going to increase, and meantime the overwhelming majority of people across Scotland are supportive of a change."
"The Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill would have made it legal for a medical practitioner or authorised health professional to give an eligible patient a lethal drug to end their own life."
Liam McArthur's assisted dying bill, which sought to allow terminally ill, mentally competent adults with less than six months to live access to medical help to end their lives, was rejected by the Scottish Parliament. McArthur described the rejection as a "woefully inadequate" response to suffering experienced by dying Scots. After five years of work, he decided to pass the responsibility to others following May's Holyrood election. Despite the defeat, McArthur remains confident that future legislation will succeed, citing growing public support and increasing numbers of people affected by what he terms "bad deaths" due to demographic trends and medical advances.
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