The Rev Dr Patrick Pullicino, the former NHS consultant neurologist who in 2012 blew the whistle on the abuses of the Liverpool Care Pathway, fears the financial motives that will soon turn doctor-assisted death into an obligation
The main stated reason for assisted suicide is for a comfortable pain-free death. However intractable, pain is actually a rare reason to use “assisted dying” in the countries in which it is legislated. The key reason people chose it is because they feel a burden on society and they feel that are doing something good for others by taking this burden away. It is a terrible option to give the elderly or the disabled as they are often lonely and in reality need to be at the centre of society not at its fringes. Marginalisation of these groups is the major driver for wanting to introduce assisted suicide.
