CN: euthanasia My views on Assisted Suicide are already on the record so I'm just going to link them rather than go deeply into it again.
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Als antwoord op @FionaSnp
Thank you for sharing your views Fiona. What I am proposing is specifically for when someone is deemed to have just days to live, ie, taken off all sustenance to ease their passing. I won't share intimate details of what happened but she lingered for 13 days without sustenance.
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Als antwoord op @JoshAaronMennie @FionaSnp
And she begged for an end to what was happening to her. I sat at her bedside as did my family & what could we say as we looked her in the eye? Pure helplessness while we watched her prolonged death in insufferable discomfort
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Als antwoord op @JoshAaronMennie
My dad died of cancer when I was 12, so I genuinely do understand the desire for a legal way to provide the kind of pain relief needed even if that would be a lethal dose in the final days.
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Als antwoord op @FionaSnp @JoshAaronMennie
But laws have a tendency to grow out of the control of the person proposing them and there are far, far too many very well-meaning people who would try to fuzz the edges of the restrictions, both in the legislative process and in practice.
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Als antwoord op @FionaSnp @JoshAaronMennie
And that's just the well-meaning ones - there are massive disparities in care and pain management by gender, wealth, race and certainly by disability. We know that neglect and ill treatment isn't spread equally and that the medical profession does not treat people equally.
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Als antwoord op @FionaSnp @JoshAaronMennie
I deeply believe that people have the right to choose when they die and that we need to deal with the process of dying better, but legislating for this has consequences beyond the immediate issue.
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So let's address those concerns & make sure they are safeguarded. Create standards that ensures the safeguarding of protecting people from being vulnerable to this. Shona Robinson did a tremendous job in her work with the Health & Social Care Standards for e.g.
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