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.

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.

British lawmakers have voted to allow assisted dying, a move set to make the UK one of a small handful of countries to allow terminally ill people to end their lives.