Comment on Call to fix palliative care before assisted dying
Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 2 weeks agoApparently it used to be more like that here in the past until a doctor called Harold Shipman helped loads of people die who didn’t actually want to die.
It made a lot people uneasy about doctors administering lethal doses of painkillers.
HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
It was illegal for doctors to do it during Harold Shipman’s time. Just less monitored. But most doctors refused to even discuss the subject with patients.
No one should make the mistake the nation supported it then. Changes to the law have been discussed since at least the 80s, This is the closet we have ever come to legalisation.