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This is just death pornography - threatening those who don't support #assistedsuicide with a 'torture chamber' Like all pornography, it is dark fantasy and not very realistic. 1/ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Toynbee is correct to point to the often-unnecessary deaths of older people and the crying need for palliative care but the answer is better healthcare and more palliative care provision, not, like in Canada (euthanasia legal since 2016), offering death to patients. 2/
Toynbee’s other arguments are faulty. First, if we accept the ‘17 a day’ figure, that is less than 1% of all deaths in the UK. Second, it is wrong to think the problem of painful or restful deaths would be resolved by legalized assisted suicide. 3/
🧵TW: #MAID, Suicide
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It often hits me like thunderbolt or a punch to the throat when I’ve called suicide prevention lines or my therapist again questions whether she needs to invoke the Mental Health Act, call the cops & have me admitted to the psych ward against my will…
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It often hits me like thunderbolt or a punch to the throat when I’ve called suicide prevention lines or my therapist again questions whether she needs to invoke the Mental Health Act, call the cops & have me admitted to the psych ward against my will…
That none of these ppl have the right or moral authority in a country w #AssistedSuicide to prevent me from unaliving myself. I’m totally against the use of law enforcement in mental health crises. For the most part I’m against involuntary admission too. But it goes beyond that.
I’m beginning to wonder, and I assure you that once mental illness becomes a qualifier for assisted suicide many others will too. What exactly is the pt of #SuicidePrevention? What’s the pt of therapy? What’s the pt of voluntary admission? Yea I know the right and proper answers.
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🧵Some thoughts on Scotland's latest #assistedsuicide proposals.
On Sunday, it was announced that a bill to legalise doctor-assisted suicide in Scotland will be brought before Holyrood. This is hugely dispiriting for those who have opposed this move in recent years.
On Sunday, it was announced that a bill to legalise doctor-assisted suicide in Scotland will be brought before Holyrood. This is hugely dispiriting for those who have opposed this move in recent years.
Assisted suicide - or, as it is euphemistically termed ‘assisted dying’ - has already been comprehensively rejected both by Holyrood and Westminster several times.
The evidence from other jurisdictions, from those working with patients at the end of life, from disabled groups and others always indicates that a change in the law would be too dangerous. Nothing has changed.
Sadly missing the debate on #AssistedDying @HouseofCommons today as
have long-standing Hexham commitments.
But am clear we need to change the law + have consistently voted for @dignityindying
Have a read of my article on why:
#Towhomdoesyourlifebelong ?
chroniclelive.co.uk/news/news-opin…
have long-standing Hexham commitments.
But am clear we need to change the law + have consistently voted for @dignityindying
Have a read of my article on why:
#Towhomdoesyourlifebelong ?
chroniclelive.co.uk/news/news-opin…
I have no doubt the #AssistedSuicide law will eventually change in UK - as it is changing elsewhere. I well remember walking through the voting lobby with @Ed_Miliband discussing how it requires leaders of medics, churches + communities to see things differently
After the last vote I gave this interview to my #Hexham paper .... and since then #doctors, #church + community leaders have come to me urging a law change hexham-courant.co.uk/news/16626219.…
