THINKING THROUGH WHY WE SHOULD NOT OPEN THIS DOOR
What’s Wrong with Legalising assisted suicide?
ELDERLY
PEOPLE
VULNERABLE
PEOPLE
PEOPLE WITH
DISABILITIES
PEOPLE IN
POVERTY
(Whitestone Insight surveyed 2001 GB adults online between 5 and 6 June 2024)
What’s Wrong with Legalising assisted suicide?
HEATHER HANCOCK
CHRISTINE GAUTHIER
ROGER FOLEY
What’s Wrong with Legalising assisted suicide?
AMIR FARSOUD
MICHAEL FRASER
“SUSAN”
“SOPHIA” and “DENISE”
What’s Wrong with Legalising assisted suicide?
KATHRIN MENTLER
What’s Wrong with Legalising assisted suicide?
What’s Wrong with Legalising assisted suicide?
ALLISON DUCLUZEAU
“I would tell Britain to only accept assisted dying when the health service is fixed— otherwise it is a very dangerous step to take. We deserve decent and timely care rather than offers of faster death.”
ALLISON DUCLUZEAU
What’s Wrong with Legalising assisted suicide?
Can we expect Westminster to achieve something that no other parliament in the world has been able to?
What’s Wrong with Legalising assisted suicide?
DONNA DUNCAN
What’s Wrong with Legalising assisted suicide?
ALAN NICHOLS
What’s Wrong with Legalising assisted suicide?
"Feeling like you're drowning in your own body - where's the dignity in that death?"
Michelle Anna Moffat post to X
“On the day of Kurt’s death, Susan [his wife] mixed the liquids prescribed as directed and Kurt began drinking the compound. ‘But with every sip,’ Susan says, ‘he’s choking and coughing, choking and coughing.’ It went on for nearly 20 minutes…
Although he never regained consciousness, the gasping, uneven breathing continued. Two hours passed. Then 4 hours. ‘At 4:15,’ Susan says, ‘I started to majorly panic’’.As she tried without success to reach a doctor, a couple more disturbing thoughts crossed her mind: She feared that Kurt, despite his unconsciousness, could hear everything — the calls, the desperation in her voice. And she wondered if his choking when he first took the medication meant that he had aspirated enough to delay its effect.
Around 7 pm, she asked the hospice to send a nurse. Shortly after the nurse arrived, a doctor called and suggested some additional measures. Soon after, Susan saw her husband sit up slightly and appear to retch three times. She ran to his bedside. Then he slid back into his pillows and stopped breathing.
What’s Wrong with Legalising assisted suicide?
What’s Wrong with Legalising assisted suicide?
EARLY REFERRAL
HOSPICE AT HOME
OUT-OF-HOURS
“It’s not necessarily about spending more money. It’s about spending it more intelligently and wisely.”
DR GORDON MACDONALD post on X