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True, but the devil is in the detail, as you can also read in your link…
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This is interesting. Could you expand on the concept of left-hand bias of the British public, that elects a Labour government once in a blue moon and regularly puts the conservatives in power?
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Well, we shall know when the media will acknowledge that, because they will start supporting them.
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Plus the UK already has a Youth Mobility Scheme with several countries, including Uruguay, Japan, South Korea and San Marino.
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You just do not get it, do you? This is not FoM. And I can assure you that UK youth do care. European youth does not commonly take gap years, UK 18 year old do, and now they cannot go and spend a year doing odd jobs in Europe.
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Apparently the average single pensioner income is £ 13,884/year. True, King Charles is elderly and he does hold an incredible amount of asset. The level of inequality in the elderly population is probably the highest of all age groups.
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Impartiality is not human…
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Indeed looking at Oregon, which is one of the few places that has retained strict criteria for access to AD, not wanting to be a burden, rather than wishing to die, is quoted more and more by people seeking AD. I would like to stress, I am not against AD, but I am much conflicted.
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I note that this article looks at the data to 2016. The one I posted for Belgium for example looks at 2015-2022, and it is generally more recent. Of course one could argue about ranking criteria is one so wishes.
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What on Earth has religion got to do with it? I mean, of course religious leader have their opinion, but most of the people that I know that express a worry are not religious at all. They are just thoughtful and use reason not instinct when building an argument.
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bioethics.org.uk/media/t1bf0i...
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pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31881289/
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I like reassuring words, but I am afraid the data on the impact on palliative care is, at best, controversial, at worst, far from reassuring. There is no systematic review yet that I can see, but I shall post the contradictory and the worrying link.
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bioethics.org.uk/media/t1bf0i...
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So very true. Sadly the evidence is that in countries where assisted dying is legal palliative care gets worse, not better, as I am sure you know. I very much doubt England will manage to be the exception. I think the correct order to do things would have been to improve palliative care first.
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Maybe defining, but how? I am not terribly sure this was an educated decision driven by an in depth, informed analysis of the topic. A well argued recent academic article scarily illustrated how even the case of Ontario is proof that the ‘slippery slope’ argument is sadly valid.
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Thank you so much for this! It is truly terrifying. Unfortunately we probably have no way of fighting this. This network cannot be dismantled, and no one would finance a counter network.