Alex Schadenberg
Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
Janet Eastham reported for the Telegraph on November 21, 2024 that AC Grayling, author, philosopher and outspoken advocate of assisted suicide, stated that:
“If as an act of compassion you wanted to help somebody escape suffering, then why only in the last six months of a terminal illness? Why not for somebody who simply cannot come to terms with being wheelchair bound let us say? Or who is clinically depressed and is never going to be independent of medications for the rest of their lives?”
Grayling supports assisted suicide for:
“any reason” noting “tens of thousands… commit suicide every year” and asking how many of these “just make things worse for everybody… because it’s not done in a clean, quiet helpful, sympathetic way?”
Grayling stated his position on a 2021 podcast. His remarks made alongside Baroness Meacher, the group’s honorary president, were recorded for the National Secular Society podcast in 2021 and have resurfaced amid intense scrutiny of the Bill ahead of a free vote next Friday. In the podcast, Lady Meacher dismissed measures in the Bill that ensure a High Court judge approves every death, saying “you can overdo” safeguards.
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| Tanni Grey-Thompson |
Baroness Grey-Thompson, former paralympian and member of the House of Lords responded, stating:
"... the comments demonstrated that the legalisation puts disabled people “at risk”."
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6 comments:
AC Grayling...spoken like the [wicked & arrogant] Eugenicist that he is...WOE unto him & his ilk!
Does this mean that all the para-olympians in wheelchairs should be eligible for MAID? After all they are in wheelchairs!!
Well, I have taken antidepressants for half my life and will continue to do so. Does this mean I want to die? Absolutely not! The man is a nutjob!
As someone who’s attempted suicide several times in my teens I am very very glad that it didn’t work even though things are not easy right now but like so many other disabled people I need more assistance which I used to have before Covid struck. Yes suicidal does leave a lot of heart ache for those it leaves behind but it is the act of suicide. The method is irevelant besides which what’s so good about a death that feels like drowning?
Knowing the fervor of the death machine operatives, are we talking voluntary or mandatory..???
No one is suggesting mandatory, in the public sphere, even though Peter Singer comes pretty close to make that suggestion, nonetheless, the end result is the pressure to die.
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