Category: Let's talk
In a survey commissioned by the Voluntary Euthanasia Society 80% of disabled people said they should be allowed to choose the time of their death,but a spokeswoman for the pro-life party said "when we are in a position where we have palliative care for everybody,then these polls mean something" For more info go to
www.disability now.org.uk
Hmm, and your point is what exactly? if you are trying to use the sheer weight of numbers argument i.e. 80 percent of disabled people say they should be allowed to choose when they can die, then I'm afraid that my answer that I gave before is the same: it doesn't deal with the possibility of fraud, end of story. How are you going to deal with the possibility of fraud? how are you going to deal with the disabled person who chanes his mind about wanting do die but is unable to express it? and another thing, what about the one in five who said they didn't want to have this entitlement? ARe we to dismiss the views of a substantial minority on a matter so fundamental as death? And remember that it's not just disabled people that would be the subjects of any potential legalisatiion of euthanasia: the old, the young, anyone could be in theory. currently, a hospital must go before the high court and win at trial before they can discontinue treatment. If we were to have a trial over every euthanasia case, that is the only way I cuold see an ethically justifiable way of implementing it.