Today, the increasingly rushed Assisted Suicide Bill Committee rejected amendments to protect people with Down’s syndrome, autism and learning difficulties, and to prevent doctors from raising the option of assisted suicide with 16 and 17-year-old children.
There would be no cooling off period before a doctor could raise assisted suicide with a patient after a terminal diagnosis, nor before a terminal patient could apply for assisted suicide. But doctors would not only be permitted to suggest assisted suicide unprompted by patients, Kim Leadbeater twice confirmed that they would be required to do so.
Elsewhere, Ministers have confirmed that assisted suicide would be outsourced to private companies so as not to affect NHS waiting lists. Will there be prepayment plans? Will there be advertising? In Canada, there are "End of Life Doulas" trading under such names as "Death's Apprentice", "Daisy Death Care", and "Dying the Dream".
Any of those provisions would be bad enough. Now put them all together. This Bill must be defeated. Preferably in time for report stage, and certainly in time for Third Reading, we need George Galloway back in the House of Commons. Both to stop conscription. And to stop this.
If assisted suicides are to be contacted out to for profit companies, will the killers have targets? Will there be incentives, holidays in Benidorm, dishwashers and the like?
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£100,000 will be paid for your death in prison.
£25,000 has been paid to whom? I pleaded guilty, but I have not seen a penny.
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