Flick 🇬🇧 on Nostr: Some horrifying stats in here. How does eg The Guardian lean on this? ...
Some horrifying stats in here. How does eg The Guardian lean on this?
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-case-against-assisted-suicide/
The involvement of the courts might sound reassuring, but we know from the scandal of the single justice procedure – under which thousands of people have been prosecuted for TV licence evasion without their knowledge – how easily a judicial decision becomes in practice a rubber-stamping procedure.
The experience of Canada and the Netherlands, which have (among others) already legalised assisted suicide, indicates how the practice would develop in Britain if this bill passes. In Canada, assisted suicide was introduced on the understanding that it should only be available to terminally ill people whose death was ‘reasonably foreseeable’. Then the Superior Court of Quebec ruled that this discriminated against people who are not terminally ill and from 2027 assisted suicide will be available across Canada for those suffering from psychiatric illness. The fact that the judgment of these people is by definition impaired has done nothing to prevent the state offering to help them die.
Wherever it has been introduced, a law legalising assisted dying for the terminally ill has, in short order, evolved into routine euthanasia.
https://archive.ph/0sNGV
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-case-against-assisted-suicide/
The involvement of the courts might sound reassuring, but we know from the scandal of the single justice procedure – under which thousands of people have been prosecuted for TV licence evasion without their knowledge – how easily a judicial decision becomes in practice a rubber-stamping procedure.
The experience of Canada and the Netherlands, which have (among others) already legalised assisted suicide, indicates how the practice would develop in Britain if this bill passes. In Canada, assisted suicide was introduced on the understanding that it should only be available to terminally ill people whose death was ‘reasonably foreseeable’. Then the Superior Court of Quebec ruled that this discriminated against people who are not terminally ill and from 2027 assisted suicide will be available across Canada for those suffering from psychiatric illness. The fact that the judgment of these people is by definition impaired has done nothing to prevent the state offering to help them die.
Wherever it has been introduced, a law legalising assisted dying for the terminally ill has, in short order, evolved into routine euthanasia.
https://archive.ph/0sNGV