David Seymour and Jacinda Ardern (Time we got serious about assisted dying,
April 1) are hellbent (I use that word advisedly) on what is actually assisted
suicide. ‘Assisted dying’ is what happens in hospices, hospitals and rest homes.
Nobody in New Zealand is ‘beyond the help of palliative care’.
In effect, Seymour and Ardern suggest normalising suicide, when youth
suicide is already a huge concern. For the frail elderly and chronically ill
whose maintenance is expensive, they want what would inevitably become not the
right but the duty to die. They want doctors, whose purpose is to preserve life,
to be able to end it.
In Holland, 97 dementia sufferers have now been killed by their doctors.
The number of mentally ill patients killed in a year has trebled. Regulator Theo
Boer, formerly an advocate for euthanasia, now says the Dutch were ‘terribly
wrong’ to think they could control it.
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