Hundreds of shoes were placed outside Parliament, as a representation of lives that would be lost to assisted suicide if the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is made law.
The government's impact assessment of Kim Leadbeater's bill estimates that between 164 and 647 people will have assisted deaths in the first year after legalisation, rising quickly thereafter. This is based on the percentages of deaths in jurisdictions with comparable eligibility criteria for allowing assisted suicide.
Kim Leadbeater has suggested that her bill would result in up to 3 per cent of deaths being by assisted suicide, which would equate to up to 17,000 deaths in England and Wales per year.
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