{"id":481028,"date":"2026-03-17T21:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/481028\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T21:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:37:08","slug":"emotional-debate-on-scotlands-assisted-dying-bill-ahead-of-historic-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/481028\/","title":{"rendered":"Emotional debate on Scotland\u2019s assisted dying bill ahead of historic vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

Green MSP describes ‘beautiful’ assisted death of her fatherpublished at 20:38 GMT<\/p>\n

20:38 GMT<\/p>\n

\"Lorna<\/p>\n

Lorna Slater tells the personal story of her father, who had an assisted death in Canada.<\/p>\n

The Green MSP emotionally describes the detailed process he had to go through.<\/p>\n

She says her dad “quite energetically” had to insist the procedure go ahead.<\/p>\n

In a passionate contribution, Slater explains her father was afraid he would lose capacity and the ability to make choices.<\/p>\n

“He knew he was going to die and he wanted to do it in the bright light of day, surrounded by his family when he knew who we were,” she says. <\/p>\n

In tears, she adds: “He was ready to go. He didn’t want to risk gasping out his last alone and afraid in the dark of the night”<\/p>\n

She said his choice meant he knew she would be there with her family and he would not die alone.<\/p>\n

Slater describes his death.<\/p>\n

“It was beautiful, I wish that death for myself, I wish it for anyone who wants it for themselves,” she says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Green MSP describes ‘beautiful’ assisted death of her fatherpublished at 20:38 GMT 20:38 GMT Lorna Slater tells the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-481028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}