Keep breathing and carry on

A fanatical pressure group wants to change the law on assisted dying - making it easier for doctors to help patients kill themselves. Parliament has rejected any change three times since 2006 out of concern for public safety. The Council of Europe has ruled that euthanasia and assisted suicide should be banned throughout Britain and the Continent. They are supported by the British Medical Association and the European Convention on Human Rights.

But the multi-millionaires backing the pressure group think they know better. They quote opinion polls claiming that three-quarters of the British public favour assisted suicide. These simplistic surveys are basically flawed. They make no mention of sinister developments in countries where assisted death has been legalised. In Holland, for example, the 'service' has been extended from the terminally ill to include healthy people.

At a time when the national deficit exceeds £1 trillion (that's £1,000,000,000,000) and mature citizens are increasingly regarded as a burden on society, euthanasia as an instrument of socio-economic policy presents a frightening scenario. The pro-death pressure group comprises powerful, determined and ideology-driven activists. They are not going to go away.

My novel, KEEP BREATHING, predicts that legalising assisted death would result in full-blown elder abuse and that this irreversible nightmare could happen sooner than we think. We live in an age when the human rights of terrorists, murderers and even war criminals are protected. What about ours?

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