Mps Have Voted In Favour Of Assisted Dying.

[sandyRoe]

I hope the safeguards around any proposals are as strong as can be.

[douglas9401]

'Toradamus'. 🙄

[ToraToraTora]

12:52 I'll take it! 👍

[THECORBYLOON]

"Nostoradamus", surely?

[Untitled]

in the netherlands assisted dying has been extended to the mentally ill... there are numerous examples of otherwise healthy people in their 20s getting successfully euthanised on the grounds that they have severe mental health problems. in canada such measures are under discussion and very likely to be rolled out. 
 

nobody who introduced assisted dying in those countries had such cases in mind... they were subsequently appealed and amended into being. 
 

toratoratora isn't being nostradamus... he's looking at things which are actually happening in the world now.

[ToraToraTora]

13:48 Thanks for understanding my position. I thought I was being clear but many seem to be deliberately missing the point I'm making.

[THECORBYLOON]

'In 1994, the Dutch supreme court ruled in the Chabot case, in which a psychiatrist assisted with suicide for a woman with intractable depression but without concomitant physical illness, that “intolerable suffering” might consist in mental suffering alone without somatic [physical] origins and not involving the terminal phase of a disease, though the court commented that such cases would be rare and that they require heightened scrutiny.'

It seems then, in the Netherlands at least, assisted dying or euthanasia for non-physical reasons has been legal for thirty year.

[jackthehat]

Tora - I think everyone has understood the point you have been hammering home. It's just that they have faith and hope that our lawmakers are sufficiently astute to formulate legislation which will prevent mission-creep.

[ToraToraTora]

JTH: "It's just that they have faith and hope that our lawmakers are sufficiently astute to formulate legislation which will prevent mission-creep." - well that'll be a first!

Anyway when the parameters are subjective they will always be challengeable.

[Old_Geezer]

Not wanting to carry on with severe mental problems seems perfectly reasonable to me. Pain isn't just physical. Provided alternatives have been tried, it still should be personal choice.

[Untitled]

how anyone could look at the present group of "our lawmakers" and believe they were up to this task is beyond me. 

[Khandro]

Untitled //in the netherlands assisted dying has been extended to the mentally ill.//

Don't tell me they're now exterminating Socialists !