While I completely understand that people with various religious beliefs may see assisted dying as against their faith... what possible justification is there for them to think they should fight to stop others having access to such measures.
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While I completely understand that people with various religious beliefs may see assisted dying as against their faith... what possible justification is there for them to think they should fight to stop others having access to such measures.
Certainly there are concerns about safeguards, but making it a legal is about humanity & personal choice.
Religion should play no part in policy decision(s); they have no rights over my life/death!
#AssistedDying
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/oct/23/muslims-bradford-assisted-dying-bill -
Tom Pearcereplied to Emeritus Prof Christopher May last edited by
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Whilst the Hospice movement and better end of life care has meant that fewer die in unremitting pain and with other distressing symptoms, as a former GP I have heard too many say of the death of a loved one "You wouldn't let an animal suffer like this". There remain times when we struggle to treat the dying with sufficient symptomatic relief. Nobody has the right to tell another person that they must tolerate the intolerable. -
@tompearce49 @ChrisMayLA6 a Finnish Green MP and disabled activist Könkkölä was vehemently against assisted death.
Not because it shouldn't be a choice (even with possibility of good quality palliative care there are horrors people should not be forced to face).
But because of the sordid state of human rights for disabled people all around the world, even in developed countries.
Doctors and next of kin would just elect for them to die. Over and over.
see also, Justin Dart
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Emeritus Prof Christopher Mayreplied to Janne last edited by
indeed; which is why so much focus needs to be on safeguards while allowing the choice to be exercised freely & without coercion
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The Yangsi Michael Dillonreplied to Emeritus Prof Christopher May last edited by
@ChrisMayLA6 @janvenetor @tompearce49 people who are disabled and "free" are coerced all the time. With the notion we're a costly financial burden.
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Jenreplied to The Yangsi Michael Dillon last edited by
@anantagd @ChrisMayLA6 @janvenetor @tompearce49 our entire society is coercive.
Every policy to cut benefit bills or imagined fraud, or get people into work without acknowledging the barriers. Every sanction and "review". Every research funding decision that prioritises away from long term conditions. Every newspaper article about "scroungers". Every extra week on waiting lists. Every overworked, under-trained healthcare professional that isn't supported to do their job.
