In my country there was recently a referendum on euthanasia. Medical chamber gave out a statement on what they think about this whole thing. I think these are some pretty good arguments from doctors. Let me know what you think if you do read it all.
"On 7 March this year (2024), the PPKŽ Bill was rejected in the National Assembly. This did not stop the promoters: their decision to pass such a law was therefore conceived as a consultative referendum to be held at the same time as the European elections on 9 June this year. This would ensure the best possible turnout and, in the face of a great deal of media propaganda, misleading, obfuscating and glorifying, would try to get as many votes as possible in favour of such a law, in order to portray its adoption as the will of the electorate.
They would have washed their own hands of it in a Pilate-like manner. The Freedom Movement's media campaign is misleading the electorate and suppressing the real content of the introduction not only of assisted suicide, where the person concerned has to take the lethal substance himself, but also of euthanasia, which does not exist almost anywhere in the world and where a third party carries out the killing. The referendum question is also misleading, according to the Constitutional Court. It asks only: 'Are you in favour of a law regulating the right to assistance in the voluntary ending of life?' This is how the promoters are trying to get this highly controversial law around the bend, using demagogic statements about assistance to end life with dignity.
The proposal, which was made without the participation of the medical organisations and which they all unanimously oppose, places the onus on doctors to implement it in the first place. Only conscientious objection could avoid this for the time being (and in Scandinavia and Canada they no longer have conscientious objection either!). The Bill is about the right to die, not about the possibility of ending life by assisted dying, where, for example, the patient would discuss this with his or her doctor.
Switzerland, which is constantly referred to in the media here, has had assisted suicide legal since 1941, but not euthanasia. This assistance is carried out by non-medical, paid euthanasia practitioners outside medical institutions. It is, in fact, inadmissible for a doctor to kill. The highest code of medical ethics has forbidden it since Hippocrates, and we doctors identify with this mission. The culture of life for which the doctor is fighting is being imposed on him by attempts to replace it with a culture of death. The bill very misleadingly singles out individuals who are 'suffering unbearably' and deserve mercy. But laws are never passed for rare individuals! It is the socially weaker members of society, the elderly, the mentally and other chronically ill and the disabled who are particularly targeted by this Bill.
For all the above reasons, the PPKŽ Bill is not necessary and should not be passed!
The adoption of this law would open the door to abuses that are already taking place around the world. In particular, this concerns organ transplants, which are now also being obtained in an incriminated manner. Of course, there is, above all, an economic interest behind this, because it is about making large profits and enriching oneself at the expense of those who are rich and who can use the money to prolong their lives. Today's materialistically oriented society considers "making money" as the only value. Alex Schadenberg reports that Canada has saved millions in pension and health care funds since the law was enacted.
The world's rigid policies have gone backwards and have proved totally incapable of keeping up with demographic, structural and other trends, even though they could have prevented a global plague in the sneaky form of introducing the legal murder of useless individuals!"
People must be prevented from falling into negative habits. If you incite people to kill, they will slowly get used to it and it will become something "normal" for them.
Therefore, we must nip in the bud such habits and the proposals for laws that give these destructive habits a legitimate stamp of approval.
This was an excerpt from the following "
https://www.zdravniskazbornica.si/informacije-publikacije-in-analize/obvestila/2024/06/05/evtanazija-koga-se-hočejo-znebiti-predlog-zakona-o-pomoči-pri-prostovoljnem-končanju-življenja-(ppkž)-pod-vprašajem!"
