ASSISTED DYING BILL 2024 UK
I am against this assisted dying . It’s legalised murder. I am completely behind Tani Grey Thompson and her views. Life is to be valued. The Bill is ungodly.
Murder, in criminal law, is defined as the killing of one person by another that is not legally justified or excusable, usually distinguished from the crime of manslaughter by the element of malice premeditated.
The penalty for illegal murder is capital punishment.
Euthanasia
Euthanasia means “a gentle and easy death.” Not a painful and screaming death.
What is the reality in hospitals?
• Doctors offer support systems to help patients live as active as possible until death.
• Most doctors carry out euthanasia yet still don’t do anything for it to be legalized.
Voluntary euthanasia sometimes called assisted suicide is where the patients have made it clear that he/she wishes to die and requests help to bring this about. There are many alternative approaches and options.
For example:
• People refusing medical treatment even if that treatment is required to save their life.
• Advanced decision such as stopping the life support machine.
• The patients refuse the attempting of resuscitation orders (CPR).
Arguments For
• The right of the individual to choose should be paramount. So long as the patient is articulate, and his or her intent is clear beyond doubt, there need be no further questions.
• Many people think that each person has the right to control his or her body and life and so should be able to determine at what time, in what way and by whose hand he or she will die.
• Human beings should be as free as possible. Unnecessary restraints on human rights are a bad thing.
• Human beings are independent biological entities, with the right to take and carry out decisions about themselves, providing the greater good of society doesn’t prohibit this. Related to this is a firm belief that death is the end.
• The right to life is not a right simply to exist.
• The right to life is a right to life with minimum quality and value.
• Death is the opposite of life, but the process of dying is part of life.
• Dying is one of the most important events in human life.
• Dying can be good or bad.
• People have the right to try and make the events in their lives as good as possible, so they have the right to try to make their dying as good as possible.
• If the dying process is hostile, people should have the right to shorten it, and reduce the excruciating discomfort.
• If an animal had a life threatening illness, the vet thinks the kindest way to treat the animal would be to put it to sleep. Therefore if Euthanasia happens with animals then it should happen with humans too.
• Six out of ten adults (60%) would only want comfort care at the end of their lives, although just 3% had made their treatment wishes clear in an advanced decision.
• Fewer than two in ten people (14%) would want medical intervention- with less than one in ten (8%) people wanting full medical intervention at the end of life.
• A survey found that a large majority (75%) of the British population think that legislation on Euthanasia should be amended to allow some degree of assisted suicide. Just over two thirds (67%) think that doctors in particular should have the legal power to end the life of a terminally ill patient who has personally given a clear indication of wanting to die.
• This argument goes that since euthanasia will continue to take place, even though it’s illegal, it would surely be better to make it legal and regulate it to minimize abuse.
• A Medix survey in the UK in 2004 found that 45% of doctors understood that their colleagues actively helped their patients die.
• Vulnerable patients might be better protected than they are at present if there were set procedures and rules that had to be followed for euthanasia.
• A patient who feared that they were under pressure to decide in favour of euthanasia would be able to gain help and support by initiating the formal procedures involved in regulated euthanasia – something that they cannot do now.
• People have an explicit right to die.
• A separate right to die is not necessary, because our other human rights imply the right to die
• Death is a private matter and if there is no harm to others, the state and other people have no right to interfere
• It is possible to regulate euthanasia.
• Allowing people to die may free up scarce health resources.
• Euthanasia happens anyway.
• Euthanasia satisfies the standard that moral rules must be universal.
• Euthanasia happens anyway.
• Is death a bad thing?
Arguments Against
• Euthanasia would not only be for people who are “terminally ill.”
• Euthanasia can become a means of health care cost containment.
• Euthanasia will become non-voluntary.
• Euthanasia is a rejection of the importance and value of human life.
Dignity in Dying is a campaign that supports Euthanasia. They also have famous patrons who share their views of supporting this campaign. These patrons include Jo Brand who is a comedian, Sir Patrick Stewart who is a famous British actor.
• Euthanasia has already been legalised in these countries:
Oregon- 2001
Belgium- May 2002
Luxembourg- February 2008
The Netherlands- 2002
This bill contradicts the Equality Act 2010, which gives everyone the right to life. It’s all about affirming and defending human dignity, and the right to life of every human being.
Hi, MPs voted on 29 November on an extreme Bill that, if successful, will introduce a dangerous assisted suicide law. This Bill is being rushed through Parliament. It was only published at 10pm on 11 November, giving MPs and the public barely two and half weeks to scrutinise the Bill before it goes to a vote. It’s vital that MPs hear from us now, showing that there are many who oppose this extreme and harmful change from being rushed into law – a change that would put countless vulnerable lives at risk. You can help stop this from happening by contacting your MP now using this simple tool: https://righttolife.org.uk/9ly4.
I just emailed my MP, and it took less than 30 seconds!
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