Assisted suicide

THE Assisted Suicide Bill, now called the Assisted Dying Bill (sounds better) is on the agenda again to be discussed in Parliament on September 11.
Supporters of assisted suicide talk about compassion.
How can anyone stand silently by and watch such unspeakable suffering, they ask, it’s the person's choice if they wish to be put down?
The clear implication is that if you disagree with the apparently reasonable proposition of ‘choice’, you are hard-hearted and uncaring, a religious fundamentalist of the worst sort.
So it's time for you to ditch the dogma and tune into 21st century Britain.
But a more rational examination of this Bill quickly reveals it has some major flaws.
For example when the 1967 Abortion Act came in, it was for only extreme cases, we now have it on demand, and the slippery slope predicted as now turned into an avalanche of dead babies from 21,000 in 1966 and leapt to 167,493 by 1972, now average to date 170,000 to 200,000 per year.
Are proponents of this Bill naïve enough to believe this Bill will be only contained to the terminally ill?
The sad, but inescapable, conclusion is that today, in our advanced Western society, the individual increasingly only has value so long as he or she remains “useful”.
Everyone else, including the disabled, the depressed, are a drain on our resources, and to be got rid of.
Is this really the kind of society in which we want to live?
Where the elderly and the infirm are put down, like animals, when they become
a burden on the rest of society?
Supporters of this Bill are writing to their MPs to support this Bill in Parliament, so if anyway this concerns you, please do the same, and write to your MP asking them not to support this
Bill.