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 Gordon Brown: We must resist the call to legalise assisted suicide
The Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has written an article in the The Daily Telegraph today (24/02/10), explaining why he believes the legalisation of assisted suicide would be wrong.
Extract:
"The law – together with the values and standards of our caring professions – supports good care, including palliative care for the most difficult of conditions; and also protects the most vulnerable in our society. For let us be clear: death as an option and an entitlement, via whatever bureaucratic processes a change in the law might devise, would fundamentally change the way we think about mortality.
The risk of pressures – however subtle – on the frail and the vulnerable, who may feel their existences burdensome to others, cannot ever be entirely excluded. And the inevitable erosion of trust in the caring professions – if they were in a position to end life – would be to lose something very precious. For when I think of the kind of care Sarah and I saw in our local hospice, where we worked as volunteers, I know in my heart that there is such a thing as a good death."
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(Source: The Daily Telegraph, 24/02/10)
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