[Margaret Pilkington]

It has been my experience through my long nursing career that doctors have used the maxim....'thou shalt not kill, but need not strive, officiously to keep alive'.
The Liverpool Care Pathway is based on this...and this has been used to accelerate the death of elderly and infirm, so in a way it has been a form of euthanasia....and in some instances relatives have not been informed or given a say in the process.
This is what makes me hesitant to feel comfortable with assisted dying.

If you think that dying of thirst is a dignified death, an easy death, believe me it is neither.
Removing treatment is one thing, removing care is a signal that we have lost our ethical way.