An unlikely ally in the campaign against Dr Death?
Courtesy of The Telegraph
For well over a decade, they were friends as they launched a global campaign to legalise assisted suicide for terminally-ill patients. But after Dr Nitschke conducted a tour of Britain last week to show people how they can end their lives effectively, Dr Irwin has hit out at his former colleagues actions.
Dr Irwin accused Dr Nitschke of being "totally irresponsible" for telling people how to obtain an "easy access" drug either for their own suicides or to help with the deaths of seriously-ill relatives. The drug, Nembutal, is illegal for human use in Britain but obtainable through the internet. His attack comes just five days after Dr Nitschke began a series of "suicide workshops" in Britain – demonstrations in which he shows people how they can end life using "exit bags" and "peaceful pills".Dr Nitschke is the founder of the pro-euthanasia organisation Exit International and he carried out the world's first legal assisted suicides in the 1990s. He was initially stopped from entering Britain last week when he arrived with his Euthanasia Drug Test Kit, but he was eventually allowed in after a nine-hour discussion with immigration officials at Heathrow. Dr Irwin has also revealed that he had pulled out of a trip abroad last year with ten people contemplating an assisted suicide when he realised that at least two of them were "totally unsuitable" to make the trip.
They were going to Mexico to obtain bottles of Nembutal, which costs just £65 for a dose that would be lethal to a human being. One was a bisexual man of about 30 who was HIV positive but did not have full-blown Aids. "He was depressed, but it would have been totally wrong to help him commit suicide," said Dr Irwin.
The other case he considered unable to support was a man who wanted to obtain Nembutal for his wife. who was in the advanced stages of Alzheimer's disease. "For the man to give her the drug to end her life would have been straightforward murder or manslaughter," said Dr Irwin, from Cranleigh, Surrey.
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1 comment:
Euthanasia will save the government money on pensions, care home fees, hospital treatment, kids get to inherit the property quicker.
No ulterior motives to bump off the old dears, then.
Handicapped babies next, if they aren't up to specification they can be bumped off, after all their quality of life isn't going to be much good and they are a drain on the economy and the taxpayer which could go on for decades.
Zyklon B futures are looking good.
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