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This from Hans Bromwich, Cowes. Ed
The Assisted Dying Bill has just been introduced in Parliament. The Arch Bishop of Canterbury has cautioned that the right to die could become a duty to die.
Assisted dying is an extremely emotive topic. No one likes to think of those who are terminally ill living in pain, but there are numerous medical ways to alleviate suffering, and how long people might live, six months, a year, is not a precise science.
My brother in law, no longer with us, had numerous letters saying he only had a few months to live, he happily lived on for many years defying medical opinion.
Gosport War Memorial Hospital
Sadly, despite assurances to the contrary assisted dying is open to abuse. Let’s not forget the hundreds of patents, ‘made comfortable’, or should I say, killed by the administering of unnecessary powerful opioids at Gosport War Memorial Hospital.
After three failed Hampshire Police investigations on the case had to be given to Kent Constabulary who have just submitted their findings to the Dept of Public Prosecutions. Who precisely, and what were Hampshire Constabulary protecting with their botched investigations?
It’s been rumoured the DPP will probably decide that decades on there’s no public interest in pursuing the deaths of over 450 patients. Many of those who deliberately had their lives terminated, were expected to make a recovery.
Who gained?
Ask yourself, who gained by their deaths? Not those who loved them. Stretched NHS services would have benefited by not seeing a revolving door of elderly patients being readmitted with ongoing issues.
The Government will have profited by not having to pay State Pensions on those who had been despatched early, whilst in some cases HMRC will have secured huge sums in Inheritance Tax much earlier than otherwise expected.
A distressing solution?
In the current crisis, with our debt-ridden Country and NHS stretched to its limits, who truly believes our Government, who has already demonstrated its callous disregard for our elderly, and views those who are no longer economically productive as a burden, will not enthusiastically see assisted dying as an opportunity to help balance the books.
Government’s motives?
Can our Government and politicians be trusted? When it comes to providing the means for killing people it doesn’t like, nobody does it better than the British Government.
Just look at our ongoing military support for the genocidal war crimes being perpetrated in Gaza. I wouldn’t be too sure Parliament doesn’t railroad through the Assisted Dying Bill, not on moral grounds, but for economic expediency reasons instead.
