" think we can only go for terminal illness at the moment, so this doesn’t actually apply to the people who are probably about to go into care homes. But, you know, baby steps."
davidalton.net/2012/02/03/baby-steps-towards-euthanasia-why-the-council-of-europe-is-right/
Attributed to one Joyce Robins by the Daily Mail and others, who is also quoted in the Falconer report thus:
Joyce Robins, Co-Director of Patient Concern, agreed with Christine Kalus that the impact of assisted dying on the doctor–patient relationship ‘would depend a lot on the people involved’. She said the trust between older people and doctors is already at a low ebb:
I don’t put any credence in this thing that people will then be scared, they will then be frightened, because my goodness people are frightened now, terrified of going into care homes, hospitals, so on and so forth, because they’ve seen on television before their eyes what actually happens to you there. [In] my elderly community down on the south coast, people are terrified.
Instead of assisted dying adding to people’s fears about how they die, she suggested that ‘it could take that away’.
Curiously, she seems to suggest that the right way to address the problem that our care homes are seen as a fate worse than death, is to offer death as an alternative option.
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