The heart-breaking case of Lucretia Seales will surely generate many more
column inches for The Dominion Post, but could you please desist from
employing oxymoronic terms such as ‘medically assisted death’(Groups want a
say in assisted death case, April 22)?
The word ‘medical’ means ‘curative’,
which is exactly opposed to the nature of the act she proposes. That it’s done
by a doctor doesn’t make the deed ‘medical’ any more than a doctor going for a
bike ride makes it a medical bike ride.
Not to mince words, Lucretia Seales is pleading for a general practitioner
of the art of healing to kill her and get away with it.
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