
Note From the Doctor: Royal College of Psychiatrists Say No to UK Assisted Suicide Bill
In addition to the bill lacking necessary safeguards, recent reports have also dispelled the myth that all assisted suicide deaths are peaceful.

In addition to the bill lacking necessary safeguards, recent reports have also dispelled the myth that all assisted suicide deaths are peaceful.

The current proposal lacks adequate safeguards and endangers doctors by threatening criminal charges for refusing to end patients’ lives.

When governments set eligibility for euthanasia, they’re deciding whose lives are too valuable to end—and whose are deemed worthless enough to facilitate their death.

Wherever assisted suicide is legalized, family members are told that it is a tool that ends suffering. Their experience, however, tells a very different story.

The End of Life Bill is hardly different from other euthanasia laws in Europe with few to no real safeguards for the most vulnerable.

Experts complain that “any reasonable person would be deeply troubled by the one-sided nature of those being called” as witnesses.

Some hopeful campaigners believe it can still be stopped.

If we are only meaningless atoms, it makes no sense not to kill us once we’ve become redundant.

The bill was backed in its second reading by a majority of 55.

A ‘conservative’ movement that compromises on the value of life is conservative in name only.