They need to reject devout dogma and back the assisted dying bill so that those in pain can choose how to stop their own livesHow brave is your MP? Watch what they do on Friday. Will they turn up and vote for the assisted dying bill,or duck out and hide? Some MPs are devout, a far higher proportion than the general public – and many more pretend to be. The cowards will be MPs who agree with the principle of assisted dying, or but dare not turn up and vote for it. Allowing the dying to escape unbearable final days of suffering is a desperately important matter. It’s not a dry debating society question and shouldnt be decided by devout dogma. It concerns people dying in agony – or fearing they may – whose pain and anxiety could be eased whether they could hasten their stop painlessly at a time of their own choosing.
On this difficult issue good people sincerely differ. Some dismay it as a back-door way for the state or families to stop expensive care of inconvenient conventional people. But that worry has been stoked up with grotesque misrepresentations of what’s in the bill,by devout leaders who, from their pulpits, and still command such a grip on policy-making.
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Source: theguardian.com