Assisted suicide for anyone over 70 who has simply had enough of life is being considered in Holland.Who said this would never happen?
Non-doctors would be trained to administer a lethal potion to elderly people who 'consider their lives complete'.
The Dutch parliament is to debate the measure after campaigners for assisted suicide collected 112,500 signatures in a month.112,500 people out of a country with a population of, what, 16 million?
That’s like our parliament debating policy demanded by the North East England Pigeon Fanciers Club…
Supporters say it would offer a dignified way to die for those over 70 who just want to give up living, without having to resort to difficult or unreliable solitary suicide methods.And there’s no need to worry that they might feel pressured into it, oh no…
They might include widows and widowers overwhelmed by grief, those unwilling to face the frailties of extreme old age or people determined to ‘get out while they’re ahead’ and meet death on their own terms.
After all, that could never happen in England, where our elderly are treated with care and compassion in...
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A nursing home carer has been jailed for four months after hitting a 90-year-old patient with an incontinence pad.Just lovely...
Gift Mwakyusa, 27, was sentenced yesterday (March 10) at Medway Magistrates’ Court after being found guilty of common assault at an earlier hearing.Oh, well, at least they've now faced justi...
The court heard Mwakyusa and another carer, 25-year-old Anna Ramos, were seen abusing the patient at Rosewood Care Home in Bean Road, Greenhithe, in March last year.
Mwakyusa, who is from Tanzania and was studying in the UK at the time, was found in London and arrested.*sigh*
Ramos, of St Paul’s Street in Clitheroe, Lancaster, was found in Lancashire where she was charged with common assault.
However she failed to turn up to court and was found guilty in her absence, and a warrant was issued for her arrest.
Judge Michael Kelly said: “This is a very distressing case and is made all the worse that this lady was slapped a number of times.
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Does this mean if they'd slapped her only the once they might have got community service (helping the elderly no doubt) or off scot-free altogether.
The statements our out-of-touch judiciary come out with these days...
That’s like our parliament debating policy demanded by the North East England Pigeon Fanciers Club…
ReplyDeleteHow many Britons want the EuSSR and ultimately a federal Europe under the Commission? If it's about half a million that's roughly the same ratio as Dutch citizens who signed that petition. If it's a couple of million the fors are still massively outnumbered by the againsts and yet the fors are getting their way. There are two differences though. The first is that there are no reports that the balance of the population mostly oppose the move - no doubt many do but in the absence of numbers should we not assume that significant numbers just don't care? If three out of ten people want something, two don't want it and the other five simply aren't fussed enough to even have an opinion shouldn't the three get their wish? It's more or less how you elect an MP after all. The second point is that I think it's irrelevant as it's unlikely to happen. The Dutch seem to be getting less liberal and despite being, like the UK, pretty secular the political parties tend to be a bunch of moralising wankers who default to the teachings of 13 billion year old invisible sky people. Or so I'm told by a Dutch mate, though he hasn't been home for many many years. Anyway, as a result of this petition and any following debate I expect precisely nothing to happen there, here or anywhere else. In the likely absence of any civilised alternative I still expect to have to laminate my frontal lobes to a wall when I've had enough (assuming they haven't disarmed us all by then) and for some poor bastard to have to wipe up the bits of head I've been forced to leave behind. I'll have to leave an apology in case it's somebody's first day on the job or the guilt would kill me, figuratively speaking.
Speechless at the idea of a Government promoting suicide.
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That’s like our parliament debating policy demanded by the North East England Pigeon Fanciers Club…
ReplyDeleteAhhh.... Do not forget "shariha courts", "muslim ethical bank accounts", "halal food in non muslim schools", how many "muslim consultative bodies" that have more access to parliament and M.Ps that WE could ever DREAM of, "discrimination" against wearing bin bags as clothes by muslim women illegal, but O.K for B.A to sack a cross wearing member of staff, school girls being arrested for telling the teacher she could not understand what the rest of the group were Jabbering on about, yet every offical document published in twenty different "minority" languages, road signs in Polish, etc, etc, etc.
And what percent of the population are THEY?
Sorry to flog this point to a standstill, but:-
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Well... They've already made policy demanded by the likes of ASH - which appears to be comprised largely of a couple of dozen swivel-eyed loons.