Since I started this topic last week, the number of people who have signed the petition has grown from 9,000 to nearly 90,000
CARE NOT KILLING - Joffe Bill Petition
‘We the undersigned are deeply opposed to Lord Joffe’s Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill which seeks to legalise assisted suicide in England and Wales.
Persisting requests for assisted suicide are extremely rare. Experience shows that they disappear when patients’ physical, psychosocial and spiritual needs are properly provided for and therefore our key priority must be to improve provision of good palliative care.
To legalise assisted suicide would place large numbers of vulnerable people at risk – in particular those who are depressed, elderly or disabled and those who feel themselves to be under emotional or financial pressure to request early death.
Furthermore this bill undermines the well-established legal, medical and social principle that people should not be helped to kill themselves.
We believe that this bill is unnecessary, dangerous and contrary to the common good.’
