UK votes for 'Assisted Dying'

Concerns

Trust issues, Individual / State

Patient / Doctor

NFR / DNACPR failures

Urgent funding and reform of palliative care,

Need for people to have a real choice.

Could people choose assisted suicide because of fear they will not get the palliative services they need.

Mission creep

Cost of setting up this ‘service’

Will doctors opt out or opt in?

Will juniors be expected to assist seniors administering the ‘service’?

Will there be any career progression implications?

Will the ‘service’ be part of the NHS, carried out in our local hospitals?

Will doctors be forced to refer to the ‘service’

Coercive and controlling behaviour

Vulnerable, poor, unintelligent, demented, those without advocates

How will ‘capacity’ be assessed, which criteria will be used?

Who will assess ‘capacity’

Who will assess psychiatric profile, (any serious illness can cause depression, which is fully reversable)

Who will assess 6 months left to live?

Pressure from relatives

Not wanting to be a burden

Could a ‘right’ to die morph into a ‘duty’ to die.

I am spending my children’s and grandchildren’s inheritance

Any mistakes cannot be undone

Extension to children, mentally ill.

People judged by their worth / usefulness / popularity / wealth / not being cost / not being a burden

Volunteering for death seen as a duty

Freeing up a bed for a young person

Judges interpretation of the law (National and international)

Norm referencing allows for a new norm.

Tim Farron

“Our society has chosen a dystopian and contagious path if it chooses to facilitate the death of those who have a terminal illness rather than standing with them, weeping with them, valuing them and loving them against the desolation that any of us would feel if we were given a diagnosis of that sort.”

Robert Jenrick

“This Act, if passed, will be subject to activist judges in Strasbourg. They will change it fundamentally and we have to be prepared for that.”

The Commons has voted for assisted dying

– we are not the same country we were yesterday (Tim Stanley)

bringing us up to date with Oregon and, I would argue, the Third Reich.

(death could be healthcare, and necessary and kind)

We are not the same country we were; we do not rest on the same moral foundation.

we long stuck to the principle that the state does not take innocent life.

No longer.

State sponsored euthanasia debated in 5 hours

The argument for assisted dying was largely anecdotal,

MPs recounted personal experiences of illness and death, and appeals they had heard from their constituents on assisted dying.

‘unable to take the pain anymore, laid down on a railway line’

Relatives will push the elderly to die early; money will be made; the wedge will thicken;

(terminally ill adults with less than six months to live, two doctors and a judge)

and the British health service being so poor, this will come to be seen as a patriotic or desperate alternative to substandard care.

If you see someone standing on a bridge, thinking about jumping, you don’t just give them a sympathetic smile, do you?

It is the postwar consensus, as social democratic as it is Judeo-
Christian, that is crumbling – giving way to something consumerist and atomising.

[wilmamarshall]

I refused chemotherapy and letrosole for breast cancer because of long term severe allergic reactions to medications, I was told by the surgeon who removed the lump that I had wasted his time, but I didn’t waste his time, I’m still here seven years later.

[Rae-yvmd]

Do I trust this government? No I don't.

[sgjunior]

I developed bladder cancer after the jabs and have been hospitalized a few times as a result. Each time the first thing they offered me is a DNR. Being the wrong side of 70 it's obvious they are trying to lower numbers. No doubt others have a similar experience. I always tell them I'm too young to die.

[ThomasWht]

I completely changed my diet six months ago based on nationally recommended guidelines, but it only made my health worse. It wasn’t until I read 'The 23 Former Doctor Truths' that I realized doing the opposite of what the government advises can actually make a difference. No wonder the doctor who wrote it left their career—speaking the truth often challenges the system!

[Alice-vchj]

I would not trust the government with my dog’s life let alone mine

[JoeThornFreedom]

Thank God for the Canadian Trucker Convoy. Without those brave men, women and children, throwing the greatest street festival in Canadian history, who knows how long the draconian mandates would’ve continue for. Standing at the corner of Wellington and Metcalf in -30°C along side half 1 million complete strangers was the greatest moment of my life. I am no big name in the Canadian freedom movement, but I assure you John, the Canadian freedom convoy considers you an honorary Freedom Trucker.

[robinfallentine]

This worries me as well Dr Campbell. I used to volunteer to sit with people while dying. It bothered me knowing people were alone, so i made sure they were comfy and cared for.

[FireOElijahMC]

Anything the FDA recommends, I now do the opposite. Health and Beauty Mastery by Julian Bannett is a must-read if you want to uncover the shocking realities of the health industry. It opened my eyes, and I’ve completely changed my lifestyle since!

[marksykes]

I cared for my mum who had dementia for twenty five years, I lost her a long time ago, but she never lost me, she passed away naturally two weeks ago, if I could turn back the clock I would do it all again. Life is precious.

[maryparsons]

Youre right John. The rich, well connected and well supported people will definitely get treatment.
The poor and the vulnerable isolated people on the fronges of society will be picked off.
No doubt about that.

[truthblitz]

Slippery slope...this will lead within the next 100 years to the state getting rid of those undesirables who do not conform. It always starts as a so called 'altruistic' reason and warps into something diabolical. This should never have been allowed to get through as a law...

[qozzie]

Rule nr 1. Thou shalt not kill. This is not for humans to interfere with. You are my biggest hero. Thank you for being you 🙏❤️

[jackiealey]

You are such a good person, Dr. John! One who cares for his fellow man and women. God bless you. ❤

[DogeDavidLoredan]

Quality palliative care is essential. Excellent points as always

[lightgiver]

Welcome to Canada Dr Campbell. Truthfully, I am highly suspicious of Seniors in hospital that should have been helped but suspiciously "take a turn for the worse" and suddenly die.

[biddydibdab]

I have breast cancer and was given 6 months if I didn’t accept treatment. I didn’t and I haven’t been near a doctor in the last nearly four years which I’ve lived fully and without pain. I will never entrust my care to a doctor EVER again after the way they “handled” the fiasco since 2020. I live in Canada and MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying) absolutely is offered to kids and people with autism, ADD and ADHD. I think it should be offered to politicians for their deficiency in love of their fellow human beings.

[BeaHindebars]

You can judge a society by how it treats it's most vulnerable.
This is awful

[higherlove]

This is awful Dr Campbell 😢. The NHS are already desensitised to suffering. They treat patients as an inconvenience as it is. This is not good at all. This is blatant depopulation.

[MTSOUL]

If a Doctor or Nurse, chose to voluntarily 'opt in' to administer this 'service', then I'd be checking their Laptops and past 🤔

[ElsatheNewf]

I’m quadriplegic in the US and absolutely refuse to have a DNR or any kind of medical directive. Hospitals already try not to provide me care because of medical providers deciding based on their opinion that they wouldn’t want my quality of life. I had a hospital doctor once straight up tell me that if he was paralyzed like I was, he would kill himself. The length of my life is not their decision. And I don’t want to give them any further justification to fail to provide me care.