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Re: A Duty To Die?
Heard on the radio the other day that Matt Hancock has asked the UK statistician for details of the number of people committing suicide who are terminally ill. It came after details reached him of a 19 year old man with terminal oesophagus cancer was found hung in a garage.
I began to change my stance after hearing this tragic story, then the talking heads came on giving their opinion and obviously they couldn't use Holland or Switzerland as an example to use here because the mentally ill and tired of life are routinely terminated there so they chose to base Oregon as the basis of how it could work in the UK citing since the law was passed there in 1997 there hasn't been a single case of it being abused and take up has been low, this might be okay I began thinking to myself, with rock hard safe guards in place perhaps we should adopt it and after a while it became clear that whilst it wasn't being abused a significant number had put on their paperwork that their reason for seeking assisted death was so they didn't become a burden on their families so I was back ro square one as I personally don't think this good enough a reason.
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