Star Trek actor says euthanasia should be everyone's human right. Star Trek actor Sir Patrick Stewart reveals support for organisation seeking to legalise assisted death.Sir Patrick Stewart says a health scare influenced his support for assisted death. The actor Sir Patrick Stewart has spoken out about his decision to join an organisation campaigning for the legalisation of euthanasia, declaring that the choice to have an assisted death should be a right.
"I have a strong feeling that, should the time come for me, having had no role in my birth, I would like there to be a choice I might make about how I die," he said in an interview with the Sunday Times.
Speaking publicly for the first time about his membership of Dignity in Dying, Stewart referred to a recent tragedy involving a friend, as well as his own diagnosis of having coronary heart disease five years ago. "I am reluctant to go into details. Enough to say this person was driven to an extreme situation of ending their own life in the most ghastly way," he said of the friend. "There's got to be an alternative when someone is suffering so badly and is ready to go."
Asked if he believed that the choice of ending one's life should be a human right, he replied: "yes", adding: "Everything that medicine can do to keep somebody alive doesn't automatically follow as the best option."
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Right to die should be an individual right. The problem is that it can be controlled by undue influence. How do you avoid that?
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid he's not read all the things that go wrong - and thought about the corruption that can easily attach itself to this sort of thing.
ReplyDeleteDignaty in dying this way? No.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Anon that the right to die is an individual right. But, assisted suicide quickly turns into murder and those victims need to be protected.
ReplyDeleteIs the greater good to protect victims of assisted suicide wrongdoing? I believe so.
I think Sir Patrick needs to reconsider his position.
ReplyDeleteSpend some time reading real life events, how the wards are exterminated by their guardians think it doesn't happen?
Denial is a dangerous place but not as dangerous as having one's dignity and rights stripped away by our government with one's life 100% in the hands of a guardian or conservator.
It happened to our family Sir Patrick Stewart but no one would know it by reading the nursing facility's records of the days leading up to the end of a life.
I have those false records, those records are intentionally written to hide the elder abuse to mislead and to fool the reader.
I witnessed this execution and not one day passes without those memories haunting me, tormenting me reminding me of how an innocent person's life was taken without the consent of the murdered victim who was afraid who suffered greatly to the last minute of the last hour of her life.
He is speaking about common sense issues, but corruption doesn't involve common sense.
ReplyDeleteHe might think differently when faced with the circumstances.
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