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Baroness Warnock—Dementia Sufferers May have a 'Duty to Die' : 6th Oct 08
The controversial medical ethicist who helped lay the foundation for the UK's embryology law has suggested that dementia sufferers have a duty to die. Baroness Warnock is reported by the Daily Telegraph as saying that “patients are a drain on national resources”.
By implication she wants assisted suicide and/or euthanasia, including for patients who are not in pain but feel they are burden on others.
The Alzheimer's Society was shocked by Lady Warnock's remarks. UK pro-life group SPUC has described Baroness Warnock's views as "a regression to the brutal ancient world, when enforced suicide as a punishment was commonplace". The Daily Telegraph.
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