Lord Joffe, pro-assisted suicide campaigner, is giving a free public lecture entitled Assisted Dying: Rights, Choices and Palliative Care on Tuesday 27 October, at the University of Bath.
From Care not Killing
Lord Joffe, pro-assisted suicide campaigner, is giving a free public lecture entitled Assisted Dying: Rights, Choices and Palliative Care on Tuesday 27 October, at the University of Bath. Lord Joffe believes that there is an ‘urgent need’ to change the law to legalise Assisted Dying and will argue in his lecture that assisted dying and palliative care are essential and complementary aspects of care for people suffering from painful incurable diseases.
The University has given the public a chance to have their own say on assisted dying and posted a poll on their site. The poll will close on Monday 26 October and the results will be published online.
Please vote below now (and, if you have a spare moment, why not leave a brief comment on their page too?)
Poll
Please click the link below, then click ‘vote now’ and vote NO.
http://www.bath.ac.uk/news/2009/10/14/joffe/
One click from you makes a big impact – look at how the result of a previous poll is progressing:
Should Doctor’s be allowed to assist with suicides? http://www.courant.com/health/hc-assisted-suicide-poll,0,1566414,post.poll
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Tags: Law, Science Medical Ethical
October 25th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
The safety of vulnerable people would be reduced. Once it is legal to help people to die, then these vulnerable people could be at the mercy of unscrupulous relatives, or indeed, of an over-stretched health service.
It is never right to kill people. Instead we should go on developing and providing palliative care so that all people can die in pain free circumstances, and with care and dignity.