Keir’s National Suicide Service is a moral catastrophe in the making

Tell me if this sounds like scaremongering. According to one Westminster insider, if the assisted-suicide bill passes, people might receive lethal drugs simply because their care costs are too expensive. The same source argues that feeling like a burden could be seen as a ‘legitimate’ reason for an assisted death. Others are even blunter: one peer believes someone might be assisted to die because of their difficult circumstances – ‘for example, because you are poor’. Or because you don’t want to get – to put it crudely – ‘worse and worse and more disabled’.

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