Dr Jack King new book on doctor-assisted suicide – part three
Dr Vernon Coleman
Note from Vernon Coleman
With Dr Jack King’s permission I am publishing extracts from his new book `Anyone who tells you that doctor-assisted suicide is always dignified and painless is lying. Here’s the proof’ which has just been published and should be available on Amazon. Dr King’s new book is the most comprehensive and detailed analysis of doctor assisted suicide/euthanasia ever published and it will no doubt be suppressed, ignored or attacked by reviewers who haven’t read it. Please encourage everyone you know to read and share these extracts and then to buy copies of Dr King’s book to send to members of the House of Lords (who will decide, probably on September 14th, whether doctor assisted suicide is to become legal in the UK), to MPs (who have already voted in favour of the new Bill but who will in due course have another chance to vote) and to journalists. The price of the paperback version of this book includes no royalties for Dr King.
If enough readers help and send copies to members of the House of Lords, we can defeat this Bill. But if not then I fear that the Bill will go through and life will never be the same again. Those who have falsely claimed that doctor assisted suicide is always painless and dignified will win. And the euthanasia legislation will go through. It will never be repealed and within five years the British State will be legally able to kill anyone who is disabled, old, poor, unemployed and depressed. They’ll kill children too. Look back over the years and you will see, I am afraid, that my predictions have been uncannily accurate about covid and many other things. I fear I’m right about this too. If you don’t fight this Bill then you will have no reason to complain when those you love become victims.
You should be able to buy a copy of `Anyone who tells you doctor-assisted suicide is always dignified and painless is lying: Here’s the proof’ by Dr Jack King, if you go to the Amazon website. Of course, there is always a chance that it will have mysteriously become `currently unavailable’.
Vernon Coleman 2025
During the last few decades the major progress in medicine has come not in saving people but in killing them. The Liverpool Care Pathway. The Do Not Resuscitate notices. The Kill Shots. And now we have euthanasia – sometimes known as doctor assisted suicide or death by doctor.
In 2025, British MPs voted to allow the State to step up the killing by introducing a programme of euthanasia which will, despite the assurances of the Bill’s supporters, doubtless lead within a very short time to the killing of the frail, the poor, the unemployed, the sick, the elderly and the depressed and merely miserable. When patients are diagnosed with a serious illness the first thing that will happen is that they’ll be invited to avoid all their problems, save the nation money and join the Waiting List for Death. (Of course there will be a waiting list for death. This is happening under the auspices of the National Health Service after all.)
The passing by the House of Commons of ‘The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill’ marked the end of any sort of pretence of civilisation in Britain. And even if the House of Lords rejects the Bill, I have no doubt that another similar Bill will be introduced soon afterwards. ‘Voting until you get it right’ is the ‘norm’ these days.
The proponents of the Bill claim that there will be rules and regulations and restrictions which will ensure that only the terminally ill will be accepted for ‘death by doctor’ and some MPs and campaigners clearly believe that the euthanasia Bill is a ‘good’ thing. Some of them are doubtless honourable. They talk, naively, of compassion and kindness and they have done everything they can to grab the moral high ground. But I’m afraid I fear that their intentions are built more on ignorance rather than kindness. Some supporting the Bill have actually said that individuals should be allowed to die if they feel that they have become a burden. Which of us does not feel ourselves a burden at some time or another?
The euthanasia bill is called ‘The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill’ but that title is laughably misleading and quite inaccurate. If the Bill becomes law, State sponsored death will quite soon be available to the young and to the old. And it will be available to those who are far from the end of their lives.
But, the euthanasia Bill’s basic premise is faulty: having a terminal illness doesn’t mean you will die.
Supporters of the euthanasia Bill claim it will be offered to those suffering from a ‘terminal’ illness. But what is a terminal illness?
When I was a GP I had many patients who were wrongly diagnosed as having terminal cancer. I can remember two who lived for more than a decade after they had been abandoned by hospitals. (Both had strong reasons for staying alive.) Older GPs, who, like me, practised in a different time, could tell you similar stories.
There is much talk these days about ‘terminal’ illness. The words are used as though there frequently comes a point when there is no hope and nothing can be done. But that isn’t true. When doctors use the words ‘you’re going to die’ or ‘there isn’t any more that we can do’ what they really mean is: ‘we don’t know what else to do. We have no treatment left that we can use’.
And when doctors say that a patient has three months, six months or twelve months to live they are merely guessing and although their guess may sometimes be based on past experience, it is as likely to be wrong as right. No one should make predictions like that. I’ve known patients live for a decade after being told they were close to death.
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