Danny Kruger MP is right “There’s a better way of dying than assisted suicide.” Changing the law is providing a one way, no return, ticket to death.

Danny Kruger

Wednesday September 15 2021, 9.00pm, The Times

Danny Kruger MP is right “There’s a better way of dying than assisted suicide.”

Changing the law is providing a one way, no return, ticket to death.

There is a well-financed campaign to legalise doctor-assisted suicide (euphemistically renamed “assisted dying”) by means of a bill currently in the House of Lords. This campaign, led by the old Euthanasia Society (euphemistically renamed “Dignity in Dying”), scored a minor victory this week when the British Medical Association annual meeting voted by a tiny margin (149 to 145 with eight abstaining) toadopt a position of neutralityon, rather than opposition to, assisted suicide.

Dignity in Dying points to Oregon as the example for the UK to follow. They never mention Canada, Belgium or the Netherlands, with good reason. There the state is routinely killing the frail, depressed and disabled. Even in Oregon, the business of death by appointment is horrible.

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