[Aussie Dasher]

THe inevitable follow-on of 'voluntary' euthanasia!

[madprof98]

He says doctors should recognise they are already killing patients when they remove feeding tubes from those whose lives are judged to be no longer worth living. Some will suffer a "slow and distressing death" as a result. It would be better if their lives were ended "more quickly, more humanely and without guilt", Professor Doyal argues.

Well, except for Terri Schiavo, who enjoyed her death immensely. Surely it would have been wrong to deny her all that joy.

[Unam Sanctam]

And John Derbyshire applauds! Get rid of all those inconvenient terminally ill folks -- it's in their best interest...

[highlander_UW]

He says doctors should recognise they are already killing patients when they remove feeding tubes from those whose lives are judged to be no longer worth living. Some will suffer a "slow and distressing death" as a result.

This happens to be what the pro-life side has been saying all along. The pro-death camp has been claiming it's not really murder. Guess they were wrong when one of their own admits the truth here.

[Miss Maam]

"No consent for mercy deaths" ping.

[Gondring]

This is the inevitable follow-on of disrespecting a patient's rights! If we deny the right to die, how can anyone claim a right to life...for surely a right to free speech includes a right to shut up, and a right to worship includes the freedom to choose not to.

When the Life-At-All-Costs crowd claims to know better than you what is right for you, who's to say the Deathers can't do the same?

[paudio]

"Where you have legalisation, you have the best data about what is going on because people are not afraid to report it."

It seems for him having 'the best data' is the main objective of Ethics.

[Mercat]

"We're here to get your liver."

[T'wit]

>> ONE of Britain's leading experts on medical ethics

That's all the farther you have to read to know you are going to get a lecture on why dying is good for you.