✍🏻 ‘Withholding or withdrawing futile treatments is not and never has been… “assisted dying” [which] is the modern euphemism for physician- #assistedsuicide and #euthanasia , both forms of medicalised killing.’
theguardian.com/society/articl…

🎧 #PalliativeCare physician Baroness Finlay and renal consultant Dr David Randall addressed Manx parliamentarians this week, discussing grave risks posed by #assistedsuicide / #euthanasia proposals.
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I was out last night so didn’t watch this ‘live’. Whether you are pro assisted dying, anti, in the middle, or undecided you will learn something new from #BetterOffDead . Liz presents a view point that we almost never hear or see. Do watch on iPlayer if you missed it.

Better Off Dead?
Documentary on assisted dying with Liz Carr
Watch on BBC iPlayer

TV tonight: Liz Carr’s unmissable documentary about assisted dying theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/a…

Its the 'unintended consequences' that our #politicians need to fully understand before they change the law that would allow #PhysicianAssistedSuicide in our #society Scottish Parliament They have to take responsibility for the long term and not just this #Parliament

✍🏻 “Patients who have #assistedsuicide no longer have the chance for a change of mind.”

— A former #palliativecare doctor writes to The Times.

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Assisted dying is not going as well in Australia as some Jersey civil servants claim. This is a statement from a palliative care specialist in the state of Victoria. States Assembly - Jersey's elected parliament Jersey Dying Well Group

This piece makes many excellent points. Concern around assisted dying legalisation is valid and real, and deserves our deepest thought and scrutiny. Not snide ‘jokes’ about granny killers.

🇮🇪 #PalliativeCare Consultant Dr Feargal Twomey:
“Legislating for #assistedsuicide … has the potential for immense harm and unintended consequences… [Royal College of Physicians of Ireland finds] that the potential harms outweigh the arguments in favour”.
rcpi.ie/News/statement…

It worries me terribly. People well intentioned wanting to do the ‘right thing’ for the dying might take us down a similar path to the Canadian experience. We need good palliative care access for all. Not assisted suicide or euthanasia Alistair Carmichael MP

I agree. Not to say ‘told you so’ but to avoid anyone saying ‘we weren’t warned’. If introduced as a ‘medical treatment’ it is denying people a ‘treatment’ based on an arbitrary criteria thus will inevitably expand.

Euthanasia is too cruel to doctors

It is physicians who will have to be at the heart of the legally sanctioned killing process - and that is not what we are here for
johnwyatt.com/euthanasia-is-…

Hands up if you think it scandalous that very nearly all UK hospices rely on charitable giving including cake sales for vast majority of their funding.

Palliative care should be a mainstream NHS service with charity funding of 'over and above' aspects not essential care.

Devastatingly short sighted. And now we’re being told that doctors should assist dying. What will that do to our mental health and judgment?

Disability and Inclusion Groups — including Our Duty of Care — urge MSPs to oppose #assistedsuicide bill which they day poses a ‘major threat’ to them.
ourdutyofcare.org.uk/press-release/…