On Friday, after weeks of fierce and passionate debate, MPs began their formal scrutiny of the bill that would allow terminally ill adults expected to die within six months to seek help to end their own life.

Lawmakers in the U.K. have passed a controversial bill that would legalize assisted dying for terminally ill people deemed to be in the last months of their life.

There’s this fantasy that assisted dying means you take a magic potion and drift away like Sleeping Beauty. The reality is that people who are being given medical aid in dying sometimes take a long time to pass and have horrible reactions to the medication.