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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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Requests for euthanasia soon after a stroke or accident are not well-informed … many patients come to find happiness in ways that we simply cannot imagine. - Dr Steven Laureys
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I am firmly against euthanasia because it is not physical suffering that guides the desire to die but a moment of discouragement, feeling like a burden … All those who ask to die are mostly looking for love. - Maryannick Pavageau - suffers from locked-in syndrome for 30 years