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Doesn't Britain now have assisted dying? Why would he go to Switzerland for that?
by pelagicAustral 1y ago
Doesn't Britain now have assisted dying? Why would he go to Switzerland for that?
- masfuerte 1y agoThey passed a law introducing it in a few years' time. There's a statutory system of death panels that needs to be implemented.
- camjw 1y agoLaw hasn’t passed yet fyi, waiting second reading in the house of lords
- masfuerte 1y agoThank you, I had forgotten.
- gdbsjjdn 1y agoI'm opposed to medically assisted dying but based on your use of "death panels" I'm assuming you come at it from a different perspective. How is a "death panel" different from businesses deciding who gets food or health treatment?
- masfuerte 1y agoI'm also opposed to assisted suicide. At the moment "death panels" are largely imaginary. If this law passes it will introduce actual death panels which dispense actual death as a "treatment". I don't really understand your question, probably because I'm not coming from where you think I'm coming from.
- EvanAnderson 1y agoIn the US our "death panels" aren't imaginary. They're administered by insurance companies.
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- rscho 1y agoIn Switzerland, (public) health services are not businesses. And I don't think anyone in our system makes money from encouraging people's deaths. We also have assisted suicide services. They're a public association that brings penthobarbital to your place and assists you during your suicide.
- Projectiboga 1y agoCould have been physician assisted. Withdraw all meds and then give small increasing doses of morphine. But it really doesn't matter beyond his family and business partners.