Anybody who is depressed, for example after losing a spouse, child, parents and so forth need counseling, not death.
And she suggested that people who become disabled should also be able to opt for an assisted suicide.
This is downright chilling. Especially when the government decides to exercise this option, which they may do eventually.
However, a spokesman for the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland warned: “This dramatic widening of the terms of the euthanasia debate highlights its terrible dangers. Yet it is the inevitable slope down which we would slide if we allow doctors to kill their patients.
I'm not Catholic, but I agree completely. Eloquent.
But Mrs MacDonald said: “If their regime is acceptable to them and they’re enjoying their life, even with the limitations that they may have to put up with, nothing changes. The legislation is only enabling and if they don’t want to enable it, they don’t.
It always starts out that way.
Scope’s survey revealed that 70 per cent of those with a disability felt that such a change would create pressure for disabled people to “end their lives prematurely”.
This is just awful. Terrible.