In the year of 2023, no less than 30 thousand people died by assisted dying and euthanasia. This is so far the record number of cases, but the tendency is for the amount of people resorting to that to surge.
As the United Kingdom prepares itself to vote on legalizing assisted dying on Friday (29), it arises that the number of deaths due to this practice has doubled in five years.
The increase took place in all countries and states where assisted dying and euthanasia are legal.
That included the Netherlands, Belgium, Canada and the US states of California and Oregon.
But what’s the difference?
‘Assisted dying’ or ‘assisted suicide’ gives patients the means to end their own life, while euthanasia is carried out by a doctor, usually by lethal injection.
The Telegraph reported:
“While legislation was passed in some countries decades ago, numbers are still rising in part because initially strict rules have been watered down and the procedures made more widely available, including to children.”
The UK End of Life Bill makes it legal for terminally ill people over the age of 18 to ‘be given help to die’.
A doctor prepares the lethal substance but the person must take it themselves.
“Patients must be expected to die within six months and two independent doctors and a judge must be satisfied they have expressed a clear, settled, informed and independent wish to die.”
Critics fear the obvious: legal assisted suicide leads to more deaths – and to restrictions being ignored and/or loosened eventually.
“Dr Gordon MacDonald, the chief executive of Care Not Killing, said: ‘These figures show once you legalize assisted suicide or euthanasia, the numbers of those being killed and the reasons why, only ever go in one direction. Just look at Canada’.
‘It’s not just Canada where we see problems. In the Netherlands and Belgium, we have seen a massive expansion of who can be euthanized. Chillingly, this includes non-mentally competent adults, people with mental health problems and even young children and disabled babies’.
‘In Oregon, the model for the legislation which is being debated in the House of Commons, arthritis, diabetes and anorexia are all considered terminal conditions and people with them have successfully obtained the death row drugs from the state to kill themselves’.”
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