UK Votes FOR Assisted Suicide

This topic will be coming to America real soon.  If your 57 year old wife gets Alzheimer’s should you be allowed to kill her?  Wait…should she be allowed to kill herself before she gets too incompetent to finish the job?  What if your husband has to go to a nursing home that costs $10,000 per month and you have very little money left in your retirement account and it will be gone and you will be bankrupt after about 6 months?  “Hey honey, if you really love me, you’d take this arsenic pill and die.  If you don’t you will leave me bankrupted and penniless.”  What kind of husband wouldn’t kill himself for his wife?   

This topic will be heavily debated just like abortion.

On one hand, I’ve had many dogs that I’ve loved dearly, but when they started to suffer, we killed them, because we loved them.  Could the same argument be made for your mother, father or wife?

The problem will be the slippery slope.  “Hey old folks?  You’ve now reached age 75 and you’ve had a good, long life.  Please say your goodbyes to everyone and report to the funeral home on December 1 where we have scheduled your termination appointment.  As you know, this is the law that our government voted into place to help our society save billions in long term care costs.  Please play your part of helping your kids and grandkids.”

I believe it’s up to God to start and finish life.  We can certainly tell our health providers we don’t want feeding tubes and breathing tubes near the end of our lives and let God take us naturally.  But the danger of helping people kill themselves is the expectation that everyone should kill themselves when they become “useless” to society.

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 The meetings were packed, MPs said. There were tears of anger and frustration, of reliving the worst moments of their lives, of anguished fear over what awaits if people are already ill, or of how a loved one might feel like a burden.

On equal marriage, it was often said that parliament was ahead of public opinion. On assisted dying, parliament has seemed to lag behind. Two-thirds of those polled back assisted dying. Equal marriage or abortion are comparable moments of a fundamental societal shift. But they will never be personal to everyone – unlike death.

There have been many powerful and persuasive voices who spoke against the bill, including those of palliative care doctors, four former prime ministers, former judges, the father and mother of the House of Commons, and the health and justice secretaries.

Those interventions gave many MPs pause – particularly that of Wes Streeting, the health secretary who expressed his fears that the NHS was in no state to deliver such a seismic change.

But when it came to their final choice, it was the voices of ordinary constituents that rang in the minds of most MPs and whom they referred to the most in their speeches in the chamber.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/29/the-power-behind-the-vote-for-assisted-dying-ordinary-people