In nations such as the Netherlands which allow 'psychiatric euthanasia', roughly 80 per cent of people who choose it are women
In nations such as the Netherlands which allow 'psychiatric euthanasia', roughly 80 per cent of people who choose it are womenKate Maltby: ‘It has become a quiet assumption that it is simply a matter of “when”, not “if”, assisted suicide is legalised in this country’ , a man who wrote to the paper “in support of the move to legalise assisted dying”.
What has been left out of the public debate is the outsized impact in those regions of assisted suicide laws on the poor, the disabled and women. If you raise concerns about which segments of society are most likely to be pressured into assisted suicide, or likely to choose it as a response to mental trauma, you will be told that any such law – Baroness Meacher’s draft, for example – would provide suitable safeguards.Many of the country’s leading campaigners for “assisted dying” are clear that they are only campaigning to extend this option to those who are terminally ill.
If we do accept “assisted dying” in principle, we will be accepting as a nation that people should actively partake in conversations about the timing of their loved ones’ deaths. Yet those campaigning for this cultural shift also now pretend that when someone chooses death, she can always do so free from the pressures of family or finance.
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