When your loved one's death saves government money.----- Assisted Dying Bill - by Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson

The Problem of Predicting End of Life - by Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson 

The Bill allows adults who are terminally ill, subject to safeguards and protections, to request and be provided with assistance to end their own life and for connected purposes...

• First, when the Bill says expected in 6 months, what does that mean? Take, for example, Stage 4 lung cancer. Most have poor survival; 25% to 30% die in less than 3 months. Yet, of those surviving more than 3 months, 10% to 15% survive very long...
• But this is not the bill's main problem. The introduction of the term reasonably suggests some form of judicious logic is at play. The bill assumes that an element of accuracy can determine the timing of one's death, especially if we choose doctors who know best...

Share Trust the Evidence
Yet, what does the evidence say?
We’ll start with a systematic review of physicians' survival predictions in terminally ill cancer patients published in the BMJ. ..