{"links":{"self":"https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/780819.json"},"data":{"type":"petition","id":780819,"attributes":{"action":"Add chronic mental health illness with excessive distress to Assisted Dying bill","background":"Having suffered from chronic mental health issues since a very young age, which have been treatment resistant and cause significant distress to me for over 40 years, I would like people who are in the same situations as myself to be included as people who could request access to be allowed to die.","additional_details":"This would be for people who are unable to function for significant periods of time due to their mental health, who have explored over many years a large number of treatments,& who have stuck to any medication schedules. \r\nExcluding one off acute mental health issues or anyone under 25.\r\nThere would need to be a threshold of numbers of acute mental health episodes while on treatment for the option of assisted death to be available, maybe a proportion of life and not a fixed arbitrary number.","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":9,"created_at":"2026-09-01T10:15:45.886Z","updated_at":"2026-09-23T15:32:42.288Z","rejected_at":"2026-09-23T15:32:41.009Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2026-09-01T15:15:50.000Z","response_threshold_reached_at":null,"government_response_at":null,"debate_threshold_reached_at":null,"debate_scheduled_on":null,"scheduled_debate_date":null,"debate_outcome_at":null,"creator_name":null,"rejection":{"code":"no-action","details":"You submitted this petition before the House of Commons declined to give a Second Reading to the Terminally Ill Adults Bill on 11 September. \r\n\r\nYou may wish to submit another petition setting out measures that you might wish the Government to take."},"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}}}