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Mps Have Voted In Favour Of Assisted Dying.
I hope the safeguards around any proposals are as strong as can be.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.It is quite easy to think of a scenario where Gt-Grandad is left on his own and is going to require expensive care, the funding of which will entail selling the vast majority of his assets, where the children/grandchildren might express their worries about their financial situations. Maybe even not say things out loud - but Gt-Grandad knows that he could ease their problems and that they want him to do so.
A dreadful day unless safeguards are drawn extremely tightly - and this Bill doesn't do that i.m.o..
Many talk about this in the third person - happening to someone else. I prefer to talk in the first person, not only would I want the tablet if I was in agony with six months of it continuing before the inevitable, but even if it never comes to that, it gives me here and now a comforting re-assurance that should it (God forbid) ever be so, there would be an available way out.
davebro: "I really can't understand some of the comments here - people will condemn the dying to months of virtual torture just to ease their own conscience. Beggars belief. I think they may change their minds if/when they end up begging for an early release." - In my opinion the focus of this debate is missing the point. Yes all the cases highlighted are valid, put them down if they want it, no problem, agree 100%. I am concerned about where this leads that's all. If they could lay down a set of parameters that are immovable then I'd vote for it. We know they cannot so innevitably it will be challenged, goal posts moved, paramters revised. situations like those described at 21:15 will arise.
10cs because they are idiots that have no idea where this leads. This whole debate is being based on many heart rending cases that I agree should all be allowed to die if they want but the real debate gets obscured by all the emotional rowlocks. It's where this leads that I have issue with. They are getting close to bumping off teenagers in canada already:
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i wouldn't describe them as idiots... i do understand the case for assisted dying. it is unfair that it is legal to humanely kill a suffering dog with no prospect of recovery but not to do the same for a person.
despite that unfairness on balance however i oppose it because the unintended consequences can be truly evil. passing a law on something is not the same as having a vote on whether it is morally right... laws have consequences for how society is run. i fear that assisted dying can very easily become a loophole to target the vulnerable.
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