Over a 1000 doctors made a clear appeal to parliamentarians: reject the Act on Aided Suicide. It is not only the voice of the medical community, but above all the voice of conscience. A voice that defends life from conception to natural death.
A third, decisive reading of the bill may take place at the end of June in the home of Commons. Not only the form of the future law, but the soul of the nation, which has late referred to the Christian heritage and ethos of care for the weakest.
Palliative care – not euthanasia
The message published by doctors clearly states: assisted suicide is not and will never be a form of healthcare. actual medicine does not accelerate death. Its vocation is to treat, relieve pain, accompany the patient – not to quit on man at his most hard minute of life.
Instead of offering death, the state should invest in palliative care and intellectual support. The work of a civilized society is to care for the suffering alternatively than to offer them a "final solution".
Abuse That Already Happens
Doctors are alerting: the proposed bill ignores basic safety rules. He doesn't require that a patient be examined by a medical examiner. Moreover, it allows all doctor – without palliative preparation – to propose the alleged "assisted dying", even to people with intellectual disabilities or autism. This is the way to coercion, not freedom.
The patient's household can be completely left out – no 1 has to inform her about the planned death of the loved one. No 1 provides for the anticipation to rise doubts as to whether the decision of the patient has been forced.
It's not medical ethics. It's not justice. It's an escape from responsibility.
Warning from Canada
In a letter of doctors, a informing comes from Canada – a country that has entered the way of legalizing euthanasia. 5 years after the adoption of the safety rules, they proved to be an illusion. Euthanasia besides affects people with disabilities today, and its extension to psychiatric patients has only been stopped after the acute reaction of the medical community and the UN. Does Britain want to repeat this tragic scenario?
Let us side with life
Human life is sacred – regardless of health, age or fitness. A man doesn't own his life. Life is simply a gift, not a burden. Rejecting assisted suicide is an act of love, not of cruelty. It's an expression of religion in human dignity until the last breath.
The future of thousands of sick, elderly, susceptible people is at stake in Britain today. all law legalising assisted suicide strikes the foundations of a society based on solidarity, mercy and respect for the human person.
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Source: vaticannews.va
