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The ugly Assisted Dying Bill is in the House of Commons again.

Vulnerable people are again at risk.

The focus could be on palliative and social care.

Elderly and people with multiple medical conditions will be put under pressure.

No doubt the vultures will be around the care homes again.

Medical staff asked to make ethical decisions.

Beware.
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TexChik · F
When people have a horrible disease or catastrophic health failure, suffering should never be an option.

I say pump them full of all the feel good meds they need to be out of pain so they can find peace and calm. Its a service to their loved ones as well , to not suffer the horrors of seeing their beloved in such horrible discomfort.

And of course, unlocking the Morphene pump so that they can drift away at the time of their choosing.
Social care in this country is completely inadequate and under funded.
A working social care model would do wonders for the NHS.
peterlee · M
@Mindfulness Notice how Rachel Reeves, the outgoing Chancellor supported the Bill, but Wes Streeting, the Health Secretary vigorously opposed it.
@peterlee I think there's pros and cons, I just worry about how it could be regulated and the impact on vulnerable people.
Consent and the ability to give consent is a huge problem.
I can't see a workable option that doesn’t leave itself open to abuse.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
Gratuitous adjective like "ugly" don't help anything.

"Assisted dying" IS a very difficult subject, as many countries and societies find, but you seem to want to keep to suit your own beliefs, the choice from people who genuinely want Nature to be given a helping hand.

In extremis, palliative care might dull physical pain but merely prolong the agony in other ways, even if you look above the cost to the taxpayer or family (and profit to some care home quite possibly owned by some American private-equity spiv).

"No doubt the vultures..."? A blanket statement without evidence.

"again". Were there any previously? Who? Where? (Apart from care-home "investors" perhaps, though they'd make money money from prolonging deaths, not hastening them.)


"Medical staff making ethical decisions"... Don't they already do that? Even the Hippocratic Oath recognises that. It is based on saving lives as much as possible, but principally alleviating suffering. NO: the patient is the one who decides.

Otherwise doctors, followed by judges but certainly not solicitors or barristers are far more qualified than you, me or anyone else to make ethical decisions based on medical conditions.

Also, unless perhaps you are rich enough to buy private care, medical staff in the UK do not profit from such decisions. Though if they did, the longer they manage to prolong a barely-viable life the more profit they would make.

Money should have no part in such decisions anyway. (Hence keeping solicitors and barristers well out of the way!)
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Thevy29 · 41-45, M
I have worked in Palliative Care for 20 years... I have to say, it would have been a blessing in some cases.
peterlee · M
@Thevy29 Your work is very special

 
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