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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us

Emeritus Prof Christopher May

ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us

Retired Professor of Political Economy
(Lancaster University, UK - retired 2021)
(also #ProfDJ across the Lune Valley)
Contributor: North West Bylines #NoBridge

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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

Emeritus Prof Christopher May

Emeritus Prof Christopher May

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Emeritus Prof Christopher May
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Inhaltswarnung: Assisted Dying

Here's a clear & compelling intervention in the assisted dying debate; a letter from Richard Mountford in the Observer today.

#AssistedDying

Letter:

The worry that assisted dying legalisation might allow people to be “coerced, pressured or nudged into killing themselves” is misplaced.

Legalisation makes this less likely because it brings openness and requires two doctors and a judge to be sure that the terminally ill patient genuinely wants to die a few months early. Contrast that with the current situation where any assisted dying has to be given in secret with no professional approval or oversight. Generally, people giving assistance are not prosecuted, so the current law does not stop assisted dying from happening, it just prevents safeguards from being in place.

Richard Mountford
Hildenborough, Kent

#assisteddying

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