September 19, 2025Open Access

Categorising Coercion in Assisted Dying. An AI-Assisted Analysis of the House of Commons Debate on the 2025 Terminally Ill Adults Bill in England and Wales

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Analysis reveals interconnected risks of coercion in assisted dying legislation, highlighting key concerns in healthcare inequalities.

Poor care and mental coercion were the most frequently cited concerns in assisted dying debates.
Network analysis showed strong co-occurrence between medical and mental coercion, indicating interconnected risks.
Debates largely focused on individual protections, neglecting systemic monitoring of structural inequalities.
Effective regulation of voluntary assisted dying requires both individual safeguards and population-level oversight.

Hamarat et al. (2025) studied this question.

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