Killing For Profit

The drumbeat of poster-people in the UK glorifying assisted suicide continues apace. Don’t think assisted sucide is a business?? Andrew Barnes has already paid Swiss death clinic Dignitas $13,000 to travel there to kick the bucket as his has (ahem) “right.”

I have a right to end my life with dignity

A FORMER pilot given just three months to live is planning to die with the help of Swiss assisted-dying clinic Dignitas.

Andrew Barnes said his quality of life was deteriorating quickly because of a failing liver and an enlarged heart.

He regularly suffers pulmonary edema — fluid on the lungs — and takes a cocktail of drugs to control his illnesses.

Mr Barnes, 54, by his own admission a heavy drinker, was told three years ago that unless he reduced his alcohol intake, he faced life-threatening disease.

He was given his recent prognosis during treatment at the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital last week, where he spent ten days having fluid drained from his lungs. more