Doctors drop opposition to assisted dying

Getty Images

Some groups have spoken out against the change, saying a respected medical body's reputation has been damaged. Others called the decision"absurd".Nearly 7,000 doctors voted in the online poll:32% wanted the college to support a changeAnd the college has shifted to a neutral stance because neither side achieved a majority of 60%.

"We have been open from the start of this process that adopting a neutral position will mean that we can reflect the differing opinions among our membership. "This is why our view is clear, society should be doing everything in our power to prevent suicide, not assist it." The decision has infuriated and dismayed those opposed to the change, however, who argue that it is unreasonable to demand a supermajority in order to maintain the status quo.Of palliative medicine doctors, 80% voted to maintain the college's opposition to assisted dying.

Lights out folks if this is the way.

Good, a terminally ill patient should have the absolute right to die an assisted death if they are of sound mind.

Finally, great news 🙂

Why do we acquiesce when it comes to funerals and dying matters? The state should be doing this and cheaply too! funeral euthanasia Note to Parliament : Get it done! politics Joanna Lumley said what?

A positive step forward.

A neutral position is code for approving putting patients down like dogs.

What a surprise. But a dishonestly obtained change all the same:

Then doctors should be held responsible if medical advancements may find cure of that disease during life span of terminally ill patients.

Terminally-ill people shouldn't have to suffer against their will. It's time the UK allowed assisteddying. It's simple: If you don't want assisted dying, don't use it. But it should be there as a choice for those who DO want it.

They murder patients day in and day out, they did it to my mum even though she had it in writing that she wanted to have help. They call it the Liverpool care pathway but they are murdering healthy patients too by using morphine to kill them

Get on tha fence post and glue it

Dr Gordon McDonald I would assume hasn’t sat next to a terminally ill relative asking you why they can’t just die because they’re suffering so much then ... or if he has he clearly had very different feelings on it to me

beginning of The End

Dignity in death..

How about just say NO. Period.

United Kingdom Latest News, United Kingdom Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

Girl, 4, dies after falling ill in east Yorkshire doctor's surgeryA GIRL, four, died after she fell ill in her local doctor’s surgery. She was rushed to hospital in an air ambulance but later died. The little girl was at The Ridings Medical Group in East Ri… It’s never too late to change your wrong ways or habits.
Source: TheSun - 🏆 64. / 61 Read more »

Boy died days before his second birthday after doctors missed signs of sepsisThe parents of Jack Sands say their son 'could still be here' if doctors had listened to them. What's going on in the NHS? 😢 Sepsis (RodMinchin)
Source: MetroUK - 🏆 13. / 82 Read more »

Girl, 14, dies after dropping her phone in the bathShe drowned in the bath after being electrocuted when she dropped her phone in the water
Source: MetroUK - 🏆 13. / 82 Read more »

Girl, 14, dies after dropping her phone in bath as she was charging itYulia Vysotskaya, 14, was charging her mobile when it slipped out of her hands at her home in Cheboksary, Russia. Very tragic. Young people need to be made aware through schools of the danger of taking phones/laptops into the bathroom. I know it seems fairly obvious but a lot of young people don’t realise the dangerous consequences of doing it Don't play with electricity when you are sittin on a bathtub. If something bad happens It can be hardly anyone fault but yours... A phone charger gives 2.4 volts DC. I do not believe that this voltage could kill anybody, not even a Russian school girl. Clickbait from the Troll Factory.
Source: Daily Mail Online - 🏆 135. / 51 Read more »

Teen drops phone in bath and dies as kids told it’s ‘like Russian roulette’A RUSSIAN schoolgirl died after she was electrocuted when she dropped her charging mobile phone into the bath. Tragic Yulia Vysotskaya’s handset slipped out of her hands in an accident one ex… Can’t cure stupid.
Source: TheSun - 🏆 64. / 61 Read more »

Thousands of Brits are signing up for assisted suicide in SwitzerlandEXCLUSIVE: Switzerland's two biggest clinics have seen a significant increase in British clients in recent years
Source: The Mirror - 🏆 136. / 51 Read more »

Fertility doctor used own sperm to father 48 children without parents' knowledgeDr Donald Cline, 80, inseminated dozens of unwitting women at his fertility clinic near Indianapolis, USA, over two decades
Source: The Mirror - 🏆 136. / 51 Read more »

Doctors remove a bullet in a man’s airwaysThe patient went to a hospital in Medanta - on the outskirts of New Delhi - after being shot. It is unclear why he was attacked. It was published in Respiratory Medicine Case Reports.
Source: Daily Mail Online - 🏆 135. / 51 Read more »

Doctor Who season 12 spoilers: Star reveals why they SWITCHED OFF Jodie Whittaker episodesThe Doctor faces a difficult phone call with the UK security helpline as she finds out that UNIT has been temporarily shut down due to 'financial disputes and subsequent funding withdrawal'. The Doctor is panicked as an alien invasion heads for earth Why are you deliberately trying to cause more hatred ?
Source: Daily Express - 🏆 26. / 68 Read more »

Doctor's comments to women about to have abortions that got him suspendedHe had referred to abortion patients as ‘fallen women’, and has now been banned from practising medicine for three months.
Source: MetroUK - 🏆 13. / 82 Read more »