In this essay at Law and Liberty, Dalrymple argues that the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill in Britain will create a vast new bureaucracy rather than meaningfully relieve suffering, and that the rituals of paperwork may outlast the very persons the Bill claims to help:

This bill is perfectly drafted to create more employment than it will relieve suffering. Although the ostensible purpose of the bill is to assist terminally ill people who wish to end their own lives, it will, in reality, be either dangerous, because its provisions and safeguards are so cumbersome that they will be ignored, or ineffectual, because the same measures are so lengthy to comply with that few people will benefit from the passage of the law. Most people will die before the forms can be properly filled in.