I'm watching the UK Commons debate on the introduction of an Assisted Dying law.
I'd like to ask them how many of them have a terminal illness? It's all very well to say we need to fix problems with the NHS and better palliative care and in principle we should. But we've been made the same promise in that regard for fifty years.
We need this law out of simple fairness. Currently someone can make the decision that despite their pain and suffering, they choose to live.
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Jess Asato now inventing imagined cases of whatiffery. She says it's the old and disabled who will most likely use an assisted dying service, as if they are being coerced.
But of course, the young and healthy don't need to end their lives to end the pain.
What an asinine argument.
Re "the slippery slope".
I view it as the first step on the ladder. This bill even if passed, would not permit me to take advantage of it. Parkinson's is not a terminal disease and this bill requires diagnosis of such.
It also requires you to demonstrate full mental capacity, and since dementia is closely associated with Parkinson's, I'm unlikely to tick that box either.
Lastly you need to be six months from death, and I can almost guarantee if passed, the bureaucracy will take at least that to complete the forms.
So it's weak, won't help me and won't work for most
But it's SOMETHING. It's the principle of giving control back to the individual.
Clippy...
I found myself to often annoyed by AI's knee jerk reaction to the S-word (which actually in the UK is NOT illegal, but it is illegal to assist, though the cogs of society act as though it was).
AI mirrored those cogs too closely and increasingly reminded me of Microsoft's "Clippy".
"Hi! It looks like you're talking about a Chop Suey Side. Would you like me to talk you out of it?"
Like AI, Cliopy's advice got old quick and showed no sign of learning.
I will not decide when I want to die. That is God's decision.
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