LarryDavid wrote:Matthew Paris had a Times article/column at the weekend about assisted dying, not out of concern or compassion for people suffering slow painful deaths from incurable conditions of course, just because these annoying oldies are no longer economically active, Britain isn’t made of money, and therefore: ‘fuck ‘em, throw them onto the pyres.’ I don’t think it would actually happen, we’re not quite that callous as a society yet, but still. These people would happily cull us all the minute we’re no longer profitable if they could get away with it.
SpaceGazelle wrote:the sheer amount of people dying with prolonged pain.
acemuzzy wrote:I'm not sure we have accurate numbers for how many of those would choose assisted dying thoughSpaceGazelle wrote:the sheer amount of people dying with prolonged pain.
I don't know what I think. But I can see how it might happen. There's the strictest conditions (only the most horrible of circumstances, getting authorisation from a judge, a hundred different hurdles). Then calls for 'justice' and years of campaigning from pressure groups that don't meet the criteria, but still spend years slowly dying in agony. The law gets expanded bit by bit to cover more and more people. That would just happen anyway imo. Even without bad actors. But then there will be bad actors.SpaceGazelle wrote:I don't really buy the argument that it's a slippery slope. You can have clear distinctions in the law and yes, there might be pressure from nefarious relatives in some cases but that doesn't balance with the sheer amount of people dying with prolonged pain.
SpaceGazelle wrote:If you're diagnosed with a terminal disease I see no reason why you shouldn't be allowed to choose.
SpaceGazelle wrote:I don't really buy the argument that it's a slippery slope. You can have clear distinctions in the law and yes, there might be pressure from nefarious relatives in some cases but that doesn't balance with the sheer amount of people dying with prolonged pain.
SpaceGazelle wrote:I don't really buy the argument that it's a slippery slope. You can have clear distinctions in the law and yes, there might be pressure from nefarious relatives in some cases but that doesn't balance with the sheer amount of people dying with prolonged pain.
davyK wrote:I mean that when you encounter a misfortune your path on down can be compounded by the system. And it can very difficult to get out of it. Maybe you meant another slope statement? This thread is getting crowded..SpaceGazelle wrote:I don't really buy the argument that it's a slippery slope. You can have clear distinctions in the law and yes, there might be pressure from nefarious relatives in some cases but that doesn't balance with the sheer amount of people dying with prolonged pain.
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