UK votes for 'Assisted Dying'

drjohncampbell (54)in #health • 16 days ago

Concerns

Trust issues, Individual / State

Patient / Doctor

NFR / DNACPR failures

Urgent funding and reform of palliative care,

Need for people to have a real choice.

Could people choose assisted suicide because of fear they will not get the palliative services they need.

Mission creep

Cost of setting up this ‘service’

Will doctors opt out or opt in?

Will juniors be expected to assist seniors administering the ‘service’?

Will there be any career progression implications?

Will the ‘service’ be part of the NHS, carried out in our local hospitals?

Will doctors be forced to refer to the ‘service’

Coercive and controlling behaviour

Vulnerable, poor, unintelligent, demented, those without advocates

How will ‘capacity’ be assessed, which criteria will be used?

Who will assess ‘capacity’

Who will assess psychiatric profile, (any serious illness can cause depression, which is fully reversable)

Who will assess 6 months left to live?

Pressure from relatives

Not wanting to be a burden

Could a ‘right’ to die morph into a ‘duty’ to die.

I am spending my children’s and grandchildren’s inheritance

Any mistakes cannot be undone

Extension to children, mentally ill.

People judged by their worth / usefulness / popularity / wealth / not being cost / not being a burden

Volunteering for death seen as a duty

Freeing up a bed for a young person

Judges interpretation of the law (National and international)

Norm referencing allows for a new norm.

16 days ago in #health by drjohncampbell (54)