HUMAN RIGHT ACTIVISTS ASKED FOR THE RIGHT TO DIE IN THE UK

Human rights activists in the UK have been clamoring for assisted dieing and contesting the government decision to keep liked people alive against their will. Here are some reactions from the activist on the matter;

Human rights in the field of health have allowed recourse in law to individual patients held or treated against their will, but there is no right, as yet, to assisted dying. I agree, as Malik writes, that “society” should view the vulnerable as “people to whom we have obligations, not as inconveniences weighing us down”, but there is a curious slippage in that sentence, too, as though the elderly were not part of our society.

True respect for the vulnerable would involve hearing and respecting their wishes. Death is frightening, partly because we are not certain that we will be properly cared for as we die. Many hoard pills, secretly try to find suicide advice and wonder who to ask for help – not because they are suicidal, but because it makes sense to plan. To have a legal right to ask for assistance to die, and to be confident that dying would be as well taken care of as childbirth, would alleviate much unnecessary suffering.

Assisted dying is legal in many countries, but not in the UK, even though doctors keep many patients alive into their 90s and beyond. Among these elderly people, it is likely that many will feel prolonged unhappiness, perhaps with no close family surviving and disagreeable accommodation, prompting a wish to die. People who are fit and active can find it difficult to appreciate such situations but they certainly exist, making assisted dying a humane response to a request from somebody in advanced old age, including when there is no clinical disease.

Assisted dying is legal in many countries, but not in the UK, even though doctors keep many patients alive into their 90s and beyond. Among these elderly people, it is likely that many will feel prolonged unhappiness, perhaps with no close family surviving and disagreeable accommodation, prompting a wish to die. People who are fit and active can find it difficult to appreciate such situations but they certainly exist, making assisted dying a humane response to a request from somebody in advanced old age, including when there is no clinical disease.

These and many more are the arguement brought forward to fight the assured dieing cause in the United Kingdom, activists believed liked people are kept alive against thier wish and should be allowed and assisted to die as soon as they lost the zeal to live.