Huge Public Support For Change In Law To Allow The Right To Die [Culture of Death!]

London Times ^ | July 25th 2009

[Steelfish]

July 25, 2009

Huge public support for change in law to allow the right to die

Rosemary Bennett, Social Affairs Correspondent

Overwhelming public support for a change in the law to allow medically assisted suicide is revealed in a poll for The Times.

Almost three quarters (74 per cent) of people want doctors to be allowed to help terminally ill patients to end their lives. Support is particularly strong among those aged 55 to 64.

Six out of ten people also want friends and relatives to be able to help their dying loved ones to commit suicide without fear of prosecution.

Changing the law has always been opposed strongly by doctors, with two out of three against legalisation. But yesterday saw the first sign of change in the medical establishment.

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The Royal College of Nursing dropped its opposition to assisted suicide and adopted a “neutral” position after a three-month consultation with members. Nurses will receive new guidance on how patients can deal with terminal illness. Many nurses are being asked by desperate patients about travelling abroad to clinics such as Dignitas, in Zurich, to end their lives and are unsure what they can say.

The Times poll, by Populus, was carried out a week after the leading conductor Sir Edward Downes and his wife died at the Dignitas clinic on July 10. Sir Edward, 85, had become virtually blind and suffered loss of hearing while Lady Downes, 74, a former ballet dancer, had terminal cancer.

Their son and daughter accompanied them to the clinic and have been questioned by police, although they are unlikely to face further action.

[hinckley buzzard]

There's no guy with a badge or a government ID who is going to show up and say "Time to die"

How much are you willing to bet this statement does not have an expiraton date...

[goat granny]

We already have a right to die, its called suicide and the government has no business in the suicide business...mine or anyone else's.......Mandatory death is what they want....

[goat granny]

Worked in the hospital for years...Nursed in my own home a mother dying of multiple myloma, that took 6 weeks and a father dying of leukemia years later...In the hospital if the doctor is worth a damn, pain killers are given even if the amount needed hastens death...Mother was on 3 pain killers and she never complained about pain...Only took my dad 3 days and he was not the type to linger. I had injections for him from the doctor....I worked oncology from time to time...All patients were properly given pain medication. The pain comes from the family having to sit by and watch.....