That Cabinet Secretary instruction that cabinet ministers ought not become active participants in this debate has really hit home.
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George Mann
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Clearly, at some point, we WILL legalise it, so it’s stupid to make such broad statements.
Streeting was pretty measured in comparison.
And keep religion out of it. Secular arguments only.
Plenty of other countries (The Netherlands since 2002) have some form of legal assisted dying, and in none of them it has lead to legalised murder.
This it the same type of debate as abortion and trans, people making decisions about someone elses life.
Dr ignored pt's protests and inserted a drip into her arm, and even asked family members to hold her down.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/25/doctor-netherlands-asked-family-hold-down-euthanasia-patient
The Dutch legislators explicitly included the advance directive option in the law for exactly this category of patients.
But the courts agreed with the doctors that the mixed signals the patient sent out did not indicate a change of mind.
A detailed overview of the case is here
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hast.1418
When my dad was in hospital with a terminal muscle illness that affected hart and breathing, I witnessed him asking to up the morfine.
The doctor and staff knew very well that this would cause the breathing to stop and he would die.
To be honest I have very mixed feelings about this having seen my friend effectively starved to death, awful. But also having had a near death, white light experience I know how much at that moment you want to live
No, he doesn't.
They can have their say and vote in due course.
Surely the detailed scrutiny (not that we haven’t had a decade at least of discussion on the topic) and fine tuning comes following Friday’s vote. Or have I misunderstood the parly process?
I agree with Gordon Brown that it would be a better, fairer choice if palliative care were all it should be but it's not. So there we are! I'd still like the choice!
Don't want to spend my last year's dribbling away the money I've made in my lifetime to some Care Home
I want my kids to have it even if I don't know them anymore!
Pragmatically, for that reason & for my own dignity that's what I choose