Thursday, February 2, 2012

Parliament's moral duty on assisted dying | Mary Warnock

11:28 AM | Posted by Free Game Zone | | Edit Post

legislators exercise the power of life and death when it acts on the report by Lord Falconer

was a lull in the media recently about the rights and wrongs of assisted death, but the conflict is sure to emerge again with the imminent publication of the report of the Committee established to review Lord Falconer changes to the law.

The commission was created in fall 2010 and has been repeated allegations of bias in favor of reform. It is true that Lord Falconer is known to be dissatisfied with the law as it is, as everyone should be. For things, assist or encourage suicide remains a crime, makes it a crime equivalent to murder, but the Director of Public Prosecutions has compiled a list of considerations that will make prosecution unlikely (but not impossible) when a assists another person to die at the request of its own.

This may not be a good law. On the one hand, the types of coordinating the actions of a person who transmits the stimulus to suicide in the world with a desperate that decides that, for compassion, when we ask, should help a person who likes to escape suffering. On the other hand, the only people that can not be exempted from criminal responsibility are professionals, doctors and nurses, who are the only people with the knowledge to be sure of success. Nothing could be more terrible than an attempted suicide, a terminally ill patient to die back to life even more horrible. Finally, there is the disadvantage of uncertainty.

the Commission has done its job carefully and conscientiously. Those who gave evidence were treated courteously and fairly and have the time to develop their arguments in any way tending. Regardless of the Advisory Committee, it is recommended that you clarify the current confusion, I do not think there is no reason to simply cancel their conclusions. It will not be enough to say to Lord Falconer: "Would you say that, would not" He was president of a group, not all of whom thought the same thing, and everyone who listens to those who testified before writing his report.

society is increasingly face the fact that many people today suffer a horrible death. The Commission has reinforced this positive trend to think seriously about how things can improve.

depth can admit now that we want a good death, for us, our friends and family how much I dislike the assumption that death must be rejected at all costs, regardless of our will. Euthanasia in its etymological sense, is an ideal widely shared, especially among the growing number of elderly. The desire to die at the right time "peaceful" (as most people feel compelled to say in the column on the death of newspapers. Maybe they mean that death itself is peaceful, that the death was not so, because too often is not) is partly a self-relation, in part, a matter in respect of the other. The desire to escape the humiliation and unbearable pain from an incurable disease is usually combined with the desire not to be a burden or a waste, because that is a quite respectable, which should not be considered the result of excessive pressure.
The idea that no one wants death unless they had been persuaded by someone else they want (or unless they were clinically depressed and can be treated for this) is certainly a myth. Some value to life itself may, however, it is unnecessary and pleasureless, but others do not.

palliative care, symptom control when there is no hope of recovery is a miracle drug development is progressing steadily. But we should not pretend that will soon be available to all, nor always effective. In any case, the atmosphere of love, palpable in the best palliative care can not be easily replicated in hospitals, where, as we know, the terminally ill may suffer from terrible neglect, the two doctors are not very interested in death once it is imminent, and nurses who have neither the time nor the training of specialists.

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