While high profile lawyers, doctors and celebrities grab the headlines, the views of the thousands of ordinary disable people who could be affected by this issue are rarely listened to. Disabled people who are already worried about people assuming their life isn’t worth living or seeing them as a burden, and are genuinely concerned that a change in the law could increase pressure on them to end their life. The head of end-of-life care for the NHS in the West Midlands called for patients to be given more choice over how they die.
Telegraph
“Allowing assisted suicide would ‘pressurise disabled to kill themselves'”
May 9, 2011
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