Trevor Stammers
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Former medic and associate professor of biothics. Author of 'The Ethics of Global Organ Acquisition', Bloomsbury
Joined September 2013
I ask a question about #AssistedDyingBill that must be answered before this Bill becomes law and not left to the regulations.
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“Killing people or encouraging suicide remain prohibited under the Criminal Code, including for physicians. But the exemption for MAID has given health professionals. powers to end life as a form of therapy, opening the door to abuse and overzealousness“ Canada now. UK next?.
“Should we expand eligibility for MAID?” Read my @albertaviews exchange with Nursing Prof Donna Wilson who says #MAID #euthanasia needs to be expanded ‘because people want it’. I argue we need to focus on protection, not promote death further as therapy
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"there would be no reliable way to determine whether the approved substance led to a quick and painless death or a distressing and, perhaps, unlawful one." Exaxcly. The AD Bill is wide open to abuse and if passed, will in effect facilitate it.
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A beautifully written plea that I hope will be widely read, heard and acted upon.
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'clinical evidence not only warrants the classification of.[suicidal thought] as pathological but also necessitates its treatment and prevention. This perspective poses a challenge to legislation that would legalise psychiatric MAID.' Indeed.
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'. perhaps politicians. only exist to support the concept of a social contract where everyone should equally respect each other. But why should the strong and powerful respect such a contract? And why should anyone care.? Vital questions in 2nd letter
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A sad saga of incompetence and lack of accountability.
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“For over sixty years, hospices have reassured patients: “We don’t kill you.” I personally don’t want this to change, because when the patient is admitted, they discover an even deeper truth: We cherish you.”
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“This bill will require, as a matter of law, that we not care why someone wishes to end their life, even if it is because they’ve not been given any other options. That’s why the fear from so many is real.”.
‘We are beyond talking about principles. We are at the sharp end of changing the doctor-patient relationship’ @Tanni_GT
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RT @nmdacosta: NHS sees public as an inconvenience, says new boss. “The NHS sees patients as an “inconvenience” and has “built mechanisms t….
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RT @danny__kruger: This is outrageous and typical of the promoters of the bill. IT IS NOT FOR PEOPE FACING CERTAIN AND SEVERE SUFFERING. Th….
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So setting up an assisted suicide service will be funded come what may but welfare for the disabled will be cut?
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“It means if the Senedd does not agree to the legalisation [of AD] it could become legal in Wales but without a service made available by the state.”
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Here We Are @NationalTheatre is surreal Sondheim for die hard fans only. Cast give their all though.
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I hope this is the last piece Polly writes in defence of assisted dying too because I hope she might come to oppose it as did former supporter Ann Wickett, Derek Humprey’s wife
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We don’t “treat animals better” as I heard time and again before last weeks vote on the death Bill. We ask others to kill them because we can’t afford to care for them
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“MPs do know, or should know, just who will be affected by the cutting of the rope. It was a momentous day last week, in the slow-motion discrediting of Britain’s institutions, when they went ahead and did it anyway” A sobering take of wickedness from the roots upwards.
Read at:
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Really nice to post about something other than about dying. Here’s a poem that to me is about something that can’t die.
Some lit journals pay nothing. Today, appreciatively, I received a modest check from @utulsa for this poem, which appeared in @NimrodJournal last month. Editor-in-chief @BorisDralyuk and his excellent young staff put out a first-class journal that respects the folks it publishes.
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Dead Man Walking is top.of my list for this upcoming season.
Thank you @Telegraph for including us in 'The best opera of 2025: what to book now' 🎶💃. Read the full article here:
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Mustn’t stop private enterprise cashing in on the business of ‘dignified’ suicidal assistance.
Smell gas? Call Kim Leadbeater.
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Pics from 9000 light years away and will find the ninth planet if it exists within a year.
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