Euthanasia must be distinguished from the administration of pain relief that may have the foreseen but unintended effect of shortening a person’s life.

One in 20 medical diagnoses are wrong.

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Euthanasia will ultimately decrease the choices people have for treatment at the end of life because it will blunt clinical practice.

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Euthanasia will inevitably be practised through the various prisms of social inequality and bias that characterise the delivery of social and health services in our country.

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How people die remains in the memory of those who live on. - Dame Cecily Saunders

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Euthanasia: The right to die will all too quickly become a duty to die.

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Expanding one freedom often limits another … Expanding personal freedom to include assisted suicide undermines another right – to remain alive without having to justify one’s existence. - Mark Blocher

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Legalising euthanasia will create new pathways of abuse for the elderly and disabled.

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