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Originally posted by Angiebabe
The crimes of Harold Shipman are a good example of how things go wrong (even without legislation supporting assisted suicide) when a Doctor is allowed to play god on someones life.
Regulations always look good on paper but in practise they will only make killers like Shipman harder to detect, and boy it was tough enough to bring him to justice 236 murders are ascribed to him alone whilst a legal GP.
Thats 236 innocent people dead and 1000's more lives ruined by one individual supposedly regulated and trusted to sustain life and care for the most vunerable in our socierty.
Hell, we as a nation could'nt even vet the doc, our social services system is falling apart at the seems with baby P and Karen Mathews just the tip of a massive Iceburg of errors and down right neglect, and people want to now give these very same organisations the legal power to assist in death???? Hell what on earth are they doing now then???
I for one would'nt like to go and explain to the dead victims family's that,,
"you know what in may seem bad for you at the moment but believe me there are 4 people in Stockport who are most grateful they have the chance to be killed by there doctor we were sure we had your moms consent but the report social services made looks like it was ammended whilst it went missing on the 4:25 York to Leeds inter city express.
I am sorry, here take one of our cards there is a 24 hour helpline number on the back".
Sounds ludicrous? Not by half, untill of course they make the biggest error yet and ammend the law and allow completly incompetant a**ses like Haringay and Sheffield social care to assist in ending someones life, only this time no resignations or sackings, they'll be doing it legally.
Then the above won't sound like some hyperthetical joke, it will be front page FACT, and this time we'll ALL be to blame.
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But using Harold Shipman as an example isnt really a true example of assisted suicide, its an example of a very clever manipulative mass murderer which is something totally different to the issues we are discussing here.
Assisted suicide is about choice and I would not want to be involved in refusing anyone their right to decide what happens to themselves. It is in my opinion a basic human right that we in the UK are denied. We treat our pets in a more humane way than we do our people.
Many people just feel their life has no value like the rugby player Daniel James who had to leave his own home country to end his life with his loved ones around him. His parents had to make one of the hardest decisions of their lives, and now they face prosecution in this country for allowing their son to make a choice. He had failed in several suicide attempts and was finally allowed to die with dignity, how can that be a crime?