Celebrities including the author Sir Terry Pratchett and the actor Sir Patrick Stewart have backed a campaign to allow terminally ill patients to receive help to die.
But a new poll found 70 per cent of disabled people were concerned that such a reform would create pressure on vulnerable patients to “end their lives prematurely”.
The survey for Scope, the leading disability charity, also found 3 per cent of the 500 disabled people questioned in the ComRes poll feared that they would personally come under pressure to commit suicide if the law were changed.
It looks like the [i]Read it all[/i] link is directing to a different page. [url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8501306/Allowing-assisted-suicide-would-pressurise-disabled-to-kill-themselves.html]Here’s Ross’s article[/url].
“The head of end-of-life care for the NHS in the West Midlands told the commission that the current law was not fit for the 21st century and called for patients to be given more choice over how they die.
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Leave to the NHS, no more care for you, you can jsut join other in going home (see soylent green). It is why I fear socalized medicine.
Do you like “pressurise?” Oh groan. Poor unfortunate English. L
The “right to die” will inevitably become the “duty to die.”