In the rush towards a law on assisted dying, the vulnerable have become expendable | Sonia Sodha

toAST, ITV News reported about the 51 -year -old Ann case, who traveled to a suicide clinic with a Swiss help to end her life after the death of her only son. Her first family was aware of her when they received messages bye Ann Publish it from Switzerland. Another case of 2023, when Alastair Hamilton, 47, went to the same Swiss clinic after he told his mother that he was on vacation. He was suffering from stomach problems, but he had No diagnosed disease. There are similar cases of consolidated individuals in Canada Without knowing their familiesTo their deep ordeal.

If deputies in Britain voted to give legitimacy to death next month, the same may happen. The eligibility will be more limited than it was in Switzerland or Canada, for people with a final disease, as the doctor believes that they may have less than six months to live. This is more personal than it might seem: In Oregon, for example, doctors explained the peripheral disease to include malnutrition of eating disorders, and the shepherd of Bill Bell, Kim Ledbter, rejected the amendments supported by charities for eating disorders to prevent this from happening here. The presence of difficulties in learning, mental illness, feeling depression or suicide, or misuse of alcohol that may weaken the judgment will not prevent someone from searching for a file Death with medical help. There will be no commitment to suicide providers with the help of notifying families that their relative is about to die, and there is no way for relatives to increase concerns about coercion.

Do we really want to live in a society in which depression can be depressed 19 years old with peripheral cancer to kill himself with medical assistance, and his parents did not discover until after that? Or in any older -year -old woman, she can get death with the help of avoiding being a burden on her adult children, with no opportunity to tell her that caring for her will be a work of love instead of commitment? These conditions will be completely permitted under the Leadbeateer invoice. It is the logical extension of the treatment of medical assistance to kill self -care as health care, and the ancestors of a person’s right to make independent and special options.

Last week, Leadbeater announced that the next stage of its bill – when it will discuss the rumors and vote on the draft law in its amended form during the committee stage – It was late for three weeks Until May 16. This is a privilege, although it is obligatory. Many of her colleagues were concerned that such a reluctant debate may occur just a few days before the local elections, and when the government’s impact has not been evaluated yet. Now, MPS gives more time to digest what happened to the draft law at the committee stage. If they look beyond the severe rotation, they will find legislation Weak instead of improving it. Judicial protection has been eliminated. Instead of the judges who sign the supported deaths, this will fall before the paintings without the powers of the investigation, nor the ability to call witnesses or hear the evidence under the department, and there is no commitment to conducting inquiries until after hearing from a doctor. The external control of the system has been removed by the chief medical official. NHS can use external sources to help death for companies that aim to profit. There is no suitable regulatory system nor any protection of the analgesics from its financial punishment for not providing it with the help of their places. Doctors can proactively suggest death to less than 18 years, who can qualify for them from their eighteenth birthday. These are just some problems with the bill. No wonder that six representatives of the Labor Party wrote to colleagues they call “”Flawed and dangerous“.

How did we get here? There are some supporters of death with the help of intellectual terms who admit that people will suffer from illegal deaths if they are legalized. “If a few grandmothers are intimidated, isn’t this a price worth paying to all people who can die in dignity?” Said Henry Marsh. Destious, despite an introduction. But I watched open, as some deputies who argued with the help of death chose to ignore what we know about protecting the demonstration that it is possible to get rid of the risks of coercion of people to kill themselves, through something brave like a little training for the doctors who sign it. They did not read the same reviews that I possess, which shows that even social workers with experience Rotally lose home abuse cases? Have they not digested the effects of NHS scandals, such as Middle employeesthe Motherhood scandalsand Tavistock clinic For children weave the sexes? Is it arrogance or incompetence that makes them think they know better than the country Senior experts in home abuse?

Whatever it is, the need to keep their conscience is clear by deceiving themselves that the draft law is safe, meaning that they had to meet deputies and experts who desperately tried to amend the draft law to make it safer as they act in bad faith, instead of people who have more realistic understanding of the world. They are seen as a bad people who use words such as “risks” and “protection” as a monitor of some other irrational opposition of something good in an innate way. In fact, it is the opposite: some supporters of death supported almost religious in their enthusiasm were the real way, and rejected practical adjustments from those who do not believe that it can be done safely, but they want to reduce the risks.

It is an irresponsible and irresponsible method to make the law can lead to the development of weak or suicide bombers by the state. The Labor Party appears to be connected after what it could have a serious political problem. Does he really want to be known as the party that failed to repair NHS so that one of the parents with peripheral cancer can reach decent care at the end of life, but instead made them can kill themselves with medical help when they feel suicide? But this ugly policy is pale against the primary moral question. I do not want to live in a society that sees people with complications and weaknesses consumed in reducing the suffering of others. It is really simple like that. This bothering me in an unfair way with the presence of deputies who cannot see this is exactly what this law can achieve.