UK: Pro-Deathers At Full Tilt Ahead Of Official Release Of The Falconer Commission

Well, the Brit PM may well be under pressure from the pro-deathers to legislate the findings of the Falconer Commission. However, it would serve us all well to be reminded that the Falconer Commission was stacked with pro-deathers from top to bottom – hardly then, a surprise at the pro-death findings of said commission.

David Cameron faces new pressure to end ban on assisted suicide

Helping the terminally ill to end their lives should be made legal, a report is expected to recommend this week.

The Independent Commission on Assisted Dying is set to call for it to be legalised for a limited category of people with fatal diseases, and to be strictly monitored.

The commission, chaired by the former Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer, is expected to criticise the legal framework which means that relatives face prosecution and even imprisonment for helping loved ones to commit suicide.

It will suggest that those who encourage or assist another to die should no longer be threatened with prosecution in certain cases.

There must also be strict procedures to ensure that terminally ill people are made fully aware of the palliative and social care available to them. more

Support For David Cameron's Stand Against Assisted Suicide

Here’s a good piece opposing assisted suicide and euthanasia from yesterday's Telegraph

Do not go gentle... into legalised assisted suicide

Hurray for David Cameron for pledging to resist the legalisation of assisted suicide. George Pitcher is right. You do not have to be religious to understand how creepy it would be if the government, which would have to create an oversight bureaucracy, got into the death business.

You don’t have to be church-goer to get a sense of what would happen if the flood gates were opened for strained public — and even private — health care bureaucracies. The collusion, for instance, between American HMOs (private health insurance companies that wrangle lower fees by cost-testing every procedure) and assisted suicide culture would be a sickening thing to behold. more