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Palliative care doctors on the frontline of end-of-life medicine in the UK are overwhelmingly against Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill that will be voted on at the end of November, despite safety and ethical concerns.
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Do not give doctors the right “to kill you”, Alex Schadenberg warned delegates at SPUC’s one-day conference in London, where he shared numerous horror stories about assisted suicide in Canada.
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The first vote on MP Kim Leadbeater’s proposed assisted suicide bill will take place on 29 November.
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A murder investigation has been opened after a young woman was allegedly euthanised by a doctor and two nurses using a pillow following a botched attempt at palliative care.
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MPs will vote on an assisted suicide bill for England and Wales for the first time in nine years. SPUC has called on Parliament to reject the proposed law, which “poses an unacceptable mortal threat to vulnerable citizens.
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SPUC’s one-day conference in London on Saturday was a resounding success after delegates heard moving testimonies from guest speakers and SPUC staff about abortion’s life-denying ethic. “This is the moral issue of our age”, said SPUC CEO John Deighan.
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A US woman has become the first person to be killed by the Sarco Pod, an invention of the infamous Dr Death, leading to arrests in Switzerland.
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Assisted suicide will save the Canadian health care system up to $136.8 million a year, claims a study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. SPUC has slammed the suggestion as “heartless utilitarianism” that must be rejected.
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A so-called “citizens’ jury” that ruled in favour of an assisted suicide and euthanasia law for the UK “fails the impartiality test”, the campaign group Care Not Killing has warned.
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An elderly British couple has signed up for Dr Death’s suicide pod in Switzerland because they no longer trust the NHS to take care of them in their infirmity.
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Wes Streeting, the Secretary of State for Health & Social Care, worries that legalising assisted suicide in the UK will cause patients to “take their own life thinking they were a burden on others”.
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A palliative care expert has warned that assisted suicide laws are “not just fundamentally flawed – but downright dangerous”.
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The Law Society of Scotland, representing over 13,0000 Scottish solicitors, has condemned a proposed assisted suicide bill as “not fit for purpose”.
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Suicide rates have been shown to increase in countries where assisted suicide or euthanasia is legal, a study has revealed.
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At least 60 people with eating disorders have been euthanised or killed by assisted suicide since 2012, an academic study has found, also reporting that such deaths are underreported, raising “concerns about oversight and public safety”.
