Reader letter: Eligibility for assisted suicide must be curtailed

Article content material

An article within the Nationwide Publish version of the Star on Oct. 27 entitled “Demand spurs MAID supplier scarcity,” describes this scarcity as a “looming disaster,” given the variety of folks dying by assisted suicide elevated ten-fold between 2016 and 2021 — from 1,000 to over 10,000.

Article content material

It appears there aren’t sufficient suppliers to fulfill the demand for this service, as the factors for having the ability to be lethally injected is frequently expanded.

Article content material

Initially meant for these whose dying in all fairness foreseeable, now it’s accessible for these whose situation is “grievous and irremediable,” however whose dying will not be moderately foreseeable.

As of subsequent March, it will likely be accessible for these whose sole underlying situation is a psychological dysfunction.

Now a parliamentary committee is finding out permitting assisted suicide for mature minors. I don’t surprise why some medical professionals are uneasy about offering assisted suicide for the situation of psychological sickness or minors.

One wonders which group might be allowed to entry this service subsequent. A return to the Hippocratic Oath: “I cannot give a deadly drug to anybody if I’m requested, nor will I counsel such a plan,” could be preferable to giving the choice to extend entry to suicide with medical assist.

Maybe we must be searching for higher methods of killing the ache as an alternative of increasing entry for killing the affected person.

Arthur Bondy, LaSalle

Share Your Views

Ship letters to the editor to letters@windsorstar.com. (Don’t ship them as attachments; put them within the physique of the emails). Letters should embody your full identify, tackle and telephone quantity. (We are going to solely publish your identify and the municipality the place you reside). Letters should be fewer than 300 phrases. The Star reserves the precise to edit, condense and reject letters.