Executive Director - Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
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| Baroness Warnock |
Elderly people suffering from dementia should consider ending their lives because they are a burden on the National Health System (NHS) and their families.Warnock said:
Pensioners in mental decline are "wasting people's lives" because of the care they require and should be allowed to opt for euthanasia even if they are not in pain.The article in the Telegraph stated that:
She insisted that there was "nothing wrong" with people being helped to die for the sake of their loved ones or society.
She hoped people will soon be "licensed to put others down" if they are unable to look after themselves.
Recent figures show there are 700,000 people with degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's in Britain. By 2026 experts predict there will be one million dementia sufferers in the country, costing the NHS an estimated 35 billion pounds a year.The article also stated that:
Last year the Mental Capacity Act came into effect (UK) that gives legal force to "living wills", so patients can appoint an "attorney" to tell doctors when their food and water should be removed.Warnock also stated that:
"I'm absolutely, fully in agreement that if pain is insufferable, then someone should be given help to die, but I feel there's a wider argument that if somebody absolutely, desperately wants to die because they're a burden to their family, or the state, then I think they should be allowed to die."The article quoted Neil Hunt, the chief executive of the Alzheimer's Society, who said:
"Actually I've just written an article called 'A Duty tod Die?' for a Norwegian periodical. I wrote it really suggesting that there's nothing wrong with feeling you ought to do so for the sake of others as well as yourself."
"If you've an advance directive, appointing someone else to act on your behalf, if you become incapacitated, then I think there is a hope that your advocate may say that you would not wish to live in this condition so please try to help her die."
"I am shocked and amazed that Baroness Warnock could disregard the value of the lives of people with dementia so callously.The euthanasia lobby has always sold their goals within the framework of suffering, terminally ill people who make a free choice to die. They are a movement that rarely reveal their real goals.
With the right care, a person can have good quality of life very late in to dementia. To suggest that people with dementia shouldn't be entitled to that quality of life or that they should feel that they have some sort of duty to kill themselves is nothing short of barbaric."
Dr. Philip Nitschke - Australia's Dr. Death, hopes to distribute a "peaceful pill" that would be available to anyone who is tired of living. Nitschke stated several years agon in an interview with the National Review that the "peaceful pill" would be available to troubled teens.
Previous blog entry:
http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2008/05/alleged-suicide-job-shocks-campaigners.html
Dying With Dignity in the Netherlands (NVVE) has made it very clear in their newsletters that their final goal is the "last will pill" that could be taken by anyone who is tired of living.
At the World Federation of Right to Die conference in September 2006 in Toronto, Dr. Rob Jonquiére, the CEO of the NVVE stated that the actions of the radical side of the right to die movement was holding politicians back from supporting the "last will pill".
The NVVE is also working on establishing euthanasia as a human right.
A previous blog entry
http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/search/label/Last-will-pill
The next time you are affected by the sales pitch by the euthanasia lobby remember. The end game will be a universal right to die for the competent, a duty to die for the incompetent, and a social pressure on people with disabilities and the elderly to take the "last will/peaceful pill".
The voters in Washington State need to read the comments by Baroness Warnock, Philip Nitscke, the NVVE in the Netherlands and Ludwig Minelli in Switzerland. They need to understand that assisted suicide will not stop with the Initiative 1000 campaign, even Booth Gardner has stated that the I-1000 initiative is only the beginning because voters will not accept more at this time.
Link to the article in the Telegraph:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/news/uknews/2983652/Baroness-Warnock-Dementia-sufferers-may-have-a-duty-to-die.html
4 comments:
With Warncock being a veteran government advisor, the UK is pretty hard up for "brains"!
She says: "Actually I've just written an article called 'A Duty tod Die?' for a Norwegian periodical."
I remember the first time I read about NDY Calling them the Duty to Die, and here she is writing to a Norwegian paper "A Duty to Die".
Hey Ironsides:
When they speak about a Duty to Die, they mean those people who cost money to care for them.
Sounds familiar.
We need to set up Not Dead Yet groups everywhere.
Like you, I am very much concerned that "right to die" will eventually become "duty to die", with frail vulnerable people feeling pressure to "do the right thing" for society by checking out sooner rather than later.
You may be interested to read my ideas over at Independent Living Journal
The distance between 'right to die' and 'duty to die' is *very* short, indeed. Anyone for a 70-year old math problem?
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