Christian Institute 3 July 2013
Legalising assisted suicide would put immense pressure on vulnerable people to end their lives, according to a consultant physician in palliative medicine.
Dr Stephen Hutchison wrote in a piece for The Herald newspaper that assisted suicide has been “consistently rejected” by the Scottish Parliament because it is unsafe.
He said: “The duty of government is to protect its citizens”.
Vulnerable
He added: “When you are facing an incurable illness, or the prospect of suffering, or the costs of care are eating into your family’s inheritance, and you feel vulnerable and scared, just how little pressure would be needed to make you choose assisted suicide, particularly if you are elderly and frail or feel that you are a burden?”
http://www.christian.org.uk/news/assisted-suicide-poses-risk-to-vulnerable-says-senior-doctor-2/
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