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Surely a loving God wouldn't
want people to suffer?

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Life is full of suffering,

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it doesn't mean people should just opt out,

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as soon as it gets tough.

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If someone decides for themselves
that they want to end their life,

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to end their suffering,
then that's their decision.

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It isn't their life, God created it.
It isn't theirs to take.

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If you're sick, then there's a
cure and if there's no cure,

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then you should be given the
opportunity, the choice,

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to end your life,
to end your suffering.

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There's no need for people to suffer.

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With proper care in a hospice,
people can live without pain

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and can live with
self-respect until the end.

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But that can mean a really
long drawn out illness,

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and their family would have to
watch their loved one drift away,

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becoming less and less of
the person that they knew.

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Or, they might want to spend as
much time with you as possible.

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Okay, have it your way.

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Say your family did want you to
go down the euthanasia route,

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but you weren't sure.

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Wouldn't that put pressure on
you to have yourself killed?

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There'd be paperwork to stop that
kind of thing from happening.

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I'm not so sure.

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How long before we have
euthanasia on demand?

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And it wouldn't just be
for the terminally ill.

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Soon it'll be for old people, disabled
people, anybody that wants it,

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and then it would become
the family's decision.

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'Oh, wouldn't you like
Grandad’s suffering to end?

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It'd be the kindest thing to do'.

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It's like how we treat
old dogs and cats!

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Doctors wouldn't go
around killing anybody,

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not without their permission anyway.

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Doctors don't have to sign the
Hippocratic Oath anymore,

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but they do have a duty to care and
cure and not kill their patients.

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Doctors are already able to give
their patients all kinds of drugs,

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even if it means that it's going
to shorten a patient's life.

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It's called the
Doctrine of Double Effect.

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But doctors give their patients painkillers
to help them, not to kill them.

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Same thing

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There's a big difference between
allowing somebody to die,

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and actively doing something
to them to make them die.

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Doctors would just become murderers.

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But if they had euthanasia,

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then they'd be freed up to help someone
that's actually going to get better.

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That's like saying if there
were no ill people at all,

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doctors could spend all
day on the golf course.

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They'd still want to find
a cure for the diseases.

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What happens if they find a cure and
they carry on doing the research,

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they find a cure and this person has
already chosen assisted suicide?

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Doctors make mistakes,
what if they got it wrong?

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What if someone chooses
euthanasia and it turns out

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they weren't suffering from a
terminal disease after all?