I'm old and I don't want to get put down!!! My objection isn't religious but selfish: I care about me, me, me. The question about assisted dying is if passed will it mean that more people get what they want or fewer. Are there more who want to want to get put down who will get what they want? Or more, like me who don't want to get put do…
I'm old and I don't want to get put down!!! My objection isn't religious but selfish: I care about me, me, me. The question about assisted dying is if passed will it mean that more people get what they want or fewer. Are there more who want to want to get put down who will get what they want? Or more, like me who don't want to get put down who will be wheedled, pressured, or effectively forced by having support services cut who will not get what they want.
The elderly and infirm, and the chronically ill and disabled, are a burden financially and emotionally to caregivers and to their families. There's plenty of motivation to get them to get themselves euthanized. I'm cynical and a pessimist about human nature. If assisted dying people will be better able to practice self-deception, to imagine that by inducing inconvenient, expensive relatives to have themselves put down they're doing a good thing.
I want to survive as long as possible and I don't care how much of a financial or emotional burden I am on anyone. My life is all I've got, it's me, and I want as much me as possible. And I hope that during my final days I will be thoroughly doped up and high as a kite so that I don't know what is happening and don't care.
I'm old and I don't want to get put down!!! My objection isn't religious but selfish: I care about me, me, me. The question about assisted dying is if passed will it mean that more people get what they want or fewer. Are there more who want to want to get put down who will get what they want? Or more, like me who don't want to get put down who will be wheedled, pressured, or effectively forced by having support services cut who will not get what they want.
The elderly and infirm, and the chronically ill and disabled, are a burden financially and emotionally to caregivers and to their families. There's plenty of motivation to get them to get themselves euthanized. I'm cynical and a pessimist about human nature. If assisted dying people will be better able to practice self-deception, to imagine that by inducing inconvenient, expensive relatives to have themselves put down they're doing a good thing.
I want to survive as long as possible and I don't care how much of a financial or emotional burden I am on anyone. My life is all I've got, it's me, and I want as much me as possible. And I hope that during my final days I will be thoroughly doped up and high as a kite so that I don't know what is happening and don't care.