There are arguments for and against assisted suicide for terminally ill patients.
Cost – regardless of whether it’s a bit cheaper or a bit more expensive – should not be one of them, Wes.
It’s a strange argument because it’s as if caring for a terminally ill person doesn’t cost anything.
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It doesn’t really matter if this bill passes because it’s going to make it so difficult to even be able to use what it offers with all the hoops people would have to jump through.
Its politics. A slow game.
Much of parliament has reason to fear such bills being used less honestly.
Both the obvious bullying in aid of quickening inheritance risk. But also doctors trying to hide errors etc. Or, with a bit of creativity, out right murder.
The only way such a bill will ever pass is by addressing those fears.
But, like all such things. Once the bill is in place. More rational versions that address them in less over the top ways. Can be argued based on both the actual defined right for folks in this law. And the historical data of people who actually try to do so.
It’s never a warrantee. But reality is, politics is more often about strategies against fear than logical facts. After all, MPs are people with their own emotional and religiose flaws etc.
We can easily save money by contracting out assisted death to the private sector. Let G4S or Serco have a crack at it.
