‘Assisted dying’ is a euphemism, sugar-coating for the word ‘murder’

Whether you support the idea of assisted dying or not, before allowing yourself to be swayed one way or another, think about what those words really mean.

I’ve been thinking about their true meaning for many years but more so recently as the vote on the Assisted Dying bill fast approaches. On first hearing, it all sounds quite palatable - a good thing even. But is assisted dying just a nice way of saying ‘murder’?

Whether the victim wants to die or not is, in current UK law, irrelevant. Under current law, euthanasia (which, again, can be defined as murder) of any kind - voluntary or involuntary- is illegal. If you help someone to die with their permission and get found out, you’ll be at risk of getting up to 14 years in jail. If you alone end the life of anyone you think is suffering, you’ll dealt with as a murderer and could get a life sentence as punishment.

In very simple terms, euthanasia and assisted suicide is murder. Hastening someone’s death or ending their life is murder. How can it be considered anything else?

Look at it this way… Did Fred West “assist” his female victims to die? Was Harold Shipman carrying out a little bit of “assisted dying” on those trusting pensioners? Were Hindley and Brady guilty, not of murdering those children, but of simply facilitating their ultimately inevitable deaths through “assisted dying”?

Shipman could have argued that his victims were elderly and ill and weren’t far from death anyway. West argued that the women he killed were prostitutes and therefore, in his warped opinion, not worthy of life. Many murderers could argue that the murders they committed were mercy killings. They could claim that they were simply alleviating the suffering of their victims, putting them out of current or future misery. Just as those who believe “assisted dying” is a good thing invariably do.

Being terminally ill and being given pain relief is one thing but being overdosed to death is another. Death by lethal injection is a terrible way to go. Death Row prisoners have said they’d rather die in the electric chair or by firing squad than die from being injected with huge doses of EOL drugs - the very same drugs that are being used on the elderly and vulnerable in hospitals and care homes the world over. Several US states have now banned the use of these drugs in executions - their use has been deemed ‘prolonged torture’, which is against human rights - yet they’re continued to be used in palliative care and as part of end of life protocols. Many of our loved ones have been tortured to death and hardly anyone is batting an eyelid. If the Assisted Dying bill is made law, all these deaths, these murders, will simply be swept under the carpet.

I’ve mentioned many times the slippery slope with regards to the possible passing of the Assisted Dying bill. I’ve pointed out how legalised euthanasia could result in the deaths of people who are nowhere near the end of their lives. It’s been happening for decades anyway - and ramped up horribly at the start of the faux pandemic - but can you imagine how much worse things will get if this bill becomes law? Think of how it could be abused and misused. Elderly relatives being pushed to end their lives, being told they’ll be a burden if they live another day. Unscrupulous people wanting their inheritance early. Families plotting to get rid of unpopular or even nasty relatives. The possibilities are endless.

Look at Canada and their assisted dying program. Set up in 2016, we’re only just getting to hear some of the horror stories. Children, depressed people and the poverty-stricken being offered euthanasia as a ‘cure’ for their problems. A woman offered euthanasia as an option when she went for a mammogram. The first person injured by the C19 jab choosing to die than live with the damage the toxic mRNA injections had caused.

And what of the horror stories from Belgium and Switzerland? The woman who didn’t die after the administration of the killer drugs so the doctor suffocated her to death with a pillow. And the first woman to use a death pod found with strangulation marks on her neck.

Are these the sort of news reports we want coming out of the UK in the near future?

Doctors love to give prognoses but the truth is that no one can predict when a person is going to die unless they’re actively involved in causing their demise. No one has the right to ‘help’ another person die. And equally, no one has the right to ASK another to help them to die.

No one - not even a government, an MP, a nurse, a doctor or even a terminally ill individual - has the right to play God.