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From: Denc 🗡
Roll up, Roll up…. Assisted dying now available from your caring sharing government.. Sorry you have difficult to treat cancer, would you like to volunteer to die instead? The Commons has voted for assisted dying – we are not the same country we were yesterday The debate clarified the deep divides within both main parties – between libertarians and conservatives, progressives and socialists Well, there you have it: the British parliament votes in favour of assisted dying, bringing us up to date with Oregon and, I would argue, the Third Reich. We are not the same country we were we do not rest on the same moral foundation. Rarely was the obvious question asked, “why did we not do this before?” Because for all the misery, muck and hypocrisy around dying – and, yes, morphine helps it along – we long stuck to the principle that the state does not take innocent life. No longer. It was a good debate. The argument for assisted dying was largely anecdotal, but those are some damn good anecdotes. Kit Malthouse spoke of a constituent who, unable to take the pain anymore, laid down on a railway line. It would have been hard to resist such pleas to end suffering the problem is that the suffering that will follow legalisation, by its nature, cannot be attested to because it hasn’t happened yet. Relatives will push the elderly to die early money will be made the wedge will thicken and the British health service being so poor, this will come to be seen as a patriotic or desperate alternative to substandard care.

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