The “overwhelmingly negative” response to euthanasia (Euthanasia bill
given legal stamp, August 11) in the recent parliamentary
investigation shows New Zealanders’ common sense.
In the Netherlands where it’s legal, MPs are now considering a “Completed
Life Bill” which would allow anyone over the age of 75 to be helped to commit
suicide. People with diminished mental capacity due to dementia are being
euthanised and doctors - many of them assisted suicide providers - are alarmed
at the unchecked growth of euthanasia.
And don’t tell me that the “strict
controls” proposed in this bill would prevent the same ghastly incremental
effects here.
To quote Charles Dickens, “If the law supposes that” legalising euthanasia
wouldn’t infringe on basic human rights to life, then “the law is an ass – an
idiot”.
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