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Assisted Suicide Does ‘Nothing to Bring About Dignity in Life’ : 10th Nov 08
The Scottish government is opposing a parliamentarian's proposal to bring in a law next year which would legalise assisted suicide. Ms Nicola Sturgeon MSP, health minister, says it would not be possible to have "sufficient safeguards" but she welcomes the debate begun by Ms Margo MacDonald, independent MSP for Lothian, who has Parkinson's disease.
Ms MacDonald says it is inhumane not to have such a law. However, a disabled person has warned of eugenic activities resulting from the legalisation of assisted suicide.
Dr Alison Morton-Cooper of Dumfries and Galloway says disabled people are "socially negated" and that their suffering could be alleviated if others tried to understand their difficulties. People's fears of becoming disabled played a part in support for such policies. She concluded, "However bad my disability gets, I want to be living when I die, and that depends on the rest of you being enlightened and prepared enough to take that on board." The Herald.
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